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Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

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k3b problem

Well, I have some problems with burning Audio cd from wma files.I justs stays and nothing happens although the program counts the time that has already elapsed.Do I need any additional plugin as to record wma files or .. ?

JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

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Re: k3b problem

Well, you should have ffmpeg installed, as it is a dependency for k3b. Not sure whether repo's k3b was compiled to support direct conversion of wma files, but I'm suspecting not (correct me if I'm wrong).
So either you go and rebuild it yourself or you just use ffmpeg to convert the music files into mp3, ogg, or wav, or whatever file format you want/need. You can use something like

find -name '*wma' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -acodec vorbis -ab 128k {}.ogg \;

to batch convert wma files in your current and sub-directories.

It's probably a good idea to do that anyway as wma is propritary.

Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

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Re: k3b problem

That worked!Thanks;)

Rudanar

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From: Nagykovácsi, Hungary

Registered: 2009-11-13

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Re: k3b problem

find -name '*wma' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -acodec vorbis -ab 128k {}.ogg \;

Wow, that is useful. With this command, the converted files look like XY.wma.ogg. How can I cut the .wma out of the converted filename?

Last edited by Rudanar (2010-07-15 19:57:29)

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JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

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Re: k3b problem

try:

for i in * ; do j=`echo $i | sed 's#wma.##g' - ` ; mv "$i" "$j" ; done

EDIT: BTW: you can reuse this command. ... 's#search#replace#g' ...

Last edited by JackH79 (2010-07-16 08:32:15)