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

iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread 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 proprietary formats, and what that's all about in general. I've looked