Thanks for all these suggestions, particularly the ones involving bash
script, which I'm keen to learn more about.
>> I also recommand the libre format opus, available in SoundConverter who is
much more better than the old mp3 for a good lossy format for your future
convertions.
M4A is a container which can also contain lossy formats such as AAC. If you
need to batch convert, just use a for loop such as this (to convert m4a to
flac):
for i in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "`basename "$i" .m4a`.flac"; done;
MagicBanana:
>> Do you have the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly" installed? > Here,
SoundConverter often outputs a "GStreamer error" message that says "Could not
open resource for writing"... but it does the job anyway!
You can try FFmpeg to convert. There is also a GUI (WinFF).
VLC didn't work for transcoding .wma either. Segmentation fault.
The problem seems to be particularly bad with .wma. I also have a bunch of
.m4a files I want to convert, and I was able to convert a test file to FLAC,
MP3, and Vorbis, but the UI was still buggy with MP3. The first time I hit
the 'convert' button it did nothing but create a message saying
I recently installed SoundConverter (2.0.4) on Trisquel 7. All updates have
been downloaded and installed with apt-get. Today, I tried to convert some
.wma files to .mp3. It didn't work, and I and got a pop-up with the following
error message:
>>
"failed to install plugins: ""
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