Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ric Otte wrote: > > I looked at the wikipedia link you provided, and it linked to the > following: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless > According to it, apple lossless is data stored in a MP4 container with > the extension .m4a. It is interesting that very different encodings > can

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-23 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:50:48AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Ric Otte wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one > > has lots of songs on a mac in .m4a format and wants to convert them > > all to FLAC; is there a simple command that would do this for all

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ric Otte wrote: > Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one > has lots of songs on a mac in .m4a format and wants to convert them > all to FLAC; is there a simple command that would do this for all > songs in a directory? m4a is not lossless. In fact, m4a files are most

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-22 Thread Ric Otte
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Another reason to use FLAC: it uses the same tag structure as Ogg > Vorbis. And when using oggenc to convert FLAC to Vorbis, all tags are > preserved. > Is there an easy way to convert applelossless to FLAC? Suppose one has lots

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 06:11, CRASSlogic wrote: > Greets all. > I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having > used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly > organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac > format. > > I've recently learned about how aac and mp3 are > propri

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
(sorry for screwing your From:) ??? ??: > > Don't forget about Metadata ;) > You will loose all your tags stored in aac files while decoding 2 wav Another reason to use FLAC: it uses the same tag structure as Ogg Vorbis. And when using oggenc to convert FLAC to Vorbis, all tags are preserv

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Виталий Ищенко
Don't forget about Metadata ;) You will loose all your tags stored in aac files while decoding 2 wav P.S. mplayer can convert aac file 2 wav `mplayer file.aac -ao pcm:file=dump.wav` 2006/6/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:11:26AM -0700, CRASSlogic wrote: > G

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:11:26AM -0700, CRASSlogic wrote: > Greets all. > I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having > used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly > organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac > format. > > I've recently learned about how aac and mp3 a

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CRASSlogic wrote: > Greets all. > I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having > used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly > organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac > format. > > I've recently learned about how aac and

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-21, 02:11:26 (-0700) skrifaði CRASSlogic: > Greets all. > I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having > used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly > organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac > format. > > I've recently learned about how aac and mp3 are >

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
CRASSlogic: > > My question is; is there a way (here in Debian, Sarge) to convert my > iTunes library (currently 20.8GB) to Ogg Vorbis? I can't find a batch > encoder or similar myself, having spent quite some time on google. While there surely is a way to do that, I don't think this is the right