Well, I don't know of anything that does specifically that, but there is
audio/faad and audio/lame. The purpose of faad is to read in various
formats, and it can output wav. Likewise, LAME can read in wav and
output mp3.
With this in mind, you can have faad write to stdout, and have LAME read
from stdin:
faad -o - in.m4a | lame -h -b 128 - out.mp3
If you wanted to put that in a script, you could just have it `sed' out
the 'm4a' in favor of 'mp3' in the file name.
Another option would be to use multimedia/mplayer, but I'm not sure of
the syntax for that.
Hope I could help,
-- Brandon Cash
Karl Denninger wrote:
Not sure this is the right list.... but..... couldn't find one that was a
better "fit".
Anyone know if there's a port (or combination of ports) that would allow
conversion of file(s) from m4a format to mp3?
M4a is a "lossless" format and is similar to what Apple's Itunes uses, but
unprotected (no DRM embedded, so no problem with "reading" them) - I have
a buttload of them but need them in MP3 format for a media player that can't
"eat" m4a native.
There are Windows "pay for" software solutions, but of course, if there are
ports in the FreeBSD collection that can do this (either singularly or as a
pipeline) that'd be even better....
A quick look through the ports descriptions hasn't resulted in a "Eureka!",
so I figured I'd ask here.... perhaps someone else has faced the same
issue...
Thanks in advance!
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