m4p to ogg vorbis?

Post #227,286 by cwbrenn 9/30/05 10:05:29 AM Reply	m4p to ogg vorbis? OK, I've moved a lot of my music collection to my Linux laptop, and I'm using amarok as my main music player. I ripped my entire CD collection to my windows machine via iTunes, which meant the files were created in iTunes' "mp4" format (in quotes because it's, you know, not REALLY Mp4). They are not, however protected by any of that DRM crap. Which means that unlike the stuff I bought from the iTunes store, I can actually play these files on my linux machine without any difficulty. Unfortunately, what I can't do is add them to the database that amarok uses to keep track of your music collection. It plays the file, but won't add it to the database. Very annoying. ON the other hand, it will recognize ogg vorbis files just fine. So what can I use to convert all these damn iTunes-ripped files into ogg vorbis files? "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #227,298 by drewk 9/30/05 10:24:04 AM Reply	You're not the only one asking [link\|http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/51-Meta-Information,-Track-Infomation,-Tags.html#c527\| ... does not read and write MP4 tags (because there is no formal description of these, Apple has never released anything official on the subject)] === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #227,299 by pwhysall 9/30/05 10:25:27 AM Reply	Yer daft bastid. I use iTunes to rip my stuff in good old 256K VBR MP3. Re-rip, I say. Transcoding is only going to trash the quality. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #227,301 by drewk 9/30/05 10:32:41 AM Reply	Answering the wrong question The right question is, "How do I get this app to read/write the tags in MP4s?" I agree transcoding would introduce suck ... that's why I didn't address it. So is there any Free, lossless codec that supports meta-info tags? Seems the thing to do is rip to that, back up to DVD +/-R, and every time you want stuff in a new codec you transcode to that from the lossless original. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #227,360 by cwbrenn 9/30/05 2:20:14 PM Reply	I'm not an audiophile... ... nor do I hear well enough to miss what would be left out. And I'm not keen on re-ripping 10 gigs of CDs. I could live with transcoding. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #227,387 by folkert 9/30/05 4:23:55 PM Reply	They are mpeg4 encoded right? ffmpeg - audio/video encoder, streaming server & audio/video file converter Description: audio/video encoder, streaming server & audio/video file converter. ffmpeg is a hyper fast real time audio/video encoder, a streaming server and a generic audio and video file converter. It can grab from a standard Video4Linux video source and convert it into several file formats based on DCT/motion compensation encoding. Sound is compressed in MPEG audio layer 2 or using an AC3 compatible stream. And another description of it: This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the ffmpeg audio and video encoder. They support most existing file formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF, ...) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV, ...) [greg@duke:pdfs]$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg\nffmpeg:\n Installed: 3:20050806-0.2\n Candidate: 3:20050806-0.2\n Version table:\n * 3:20050806-0.2 0\n 990 ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid/main Packages\n 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status\n 0.cvs20050918-3 0\n 990 http://paladin.gregfolkert.net unstable/main Packages\n 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ i_wethey** [image\|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg\|\|\|\|]

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