[ale] convert aac to ogg? mp3

[jordi at bunster.org (Jordi Bunster)]

On Jun 30, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Jim Philips wrote:

> Does anybody know of any Linux utilities for doing this? I want to 
> burn some
> iTunes stuff to disk on Linux, but k3b can't deal with it. My audio 
> player,
> amarok, can play them just fine, though.

If you just want to burn to CDDA, the best way would be to use a Mac, 
or iTunes for Windows. Converting them to mp3, as you surely know, will 
create even more sound artifacts.

Another way to do it, is to use Playa[1]. Now, I have not tested this, 
but the site says they have a command line version of it that can 
decode AAC files to wav, I presume without going though the analog 
loop. If it does what it says, you get the sound on the CD with no loss 
of quality from the original AAC.

Please let us know how it goes.

	-- Jordi

[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jyeung/geek/aac/

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