Converting WMA to MP3 on OSX or Linux
Posted on | October 3, 2006 | 4 Comments
Finding this technique took more time than I thought it should, so I thought I’d share a quick and simple music transcoding tip.
Converting WMA to MP3
1) Get mplayer and lame installed. I use the accelerated and precompiled mplayer and lame for OSX.
2) Create a simple shell script:
#! /bin/sh
set -e
F=$1
mplayer -ao pcm:file="${F%.wma}.wav" "$F"
lame --preset hifi "${F%.wma}.wav" "${F%.wma}.mp3"
rm -f "${F%.wma}.wav"
Save as “convert_wav.sh”, make executable, and run it on your wma files. An easy way to hit all of them in a directory tree is:
find . -name "*wma" -exec convert_wav.sh {} \;
Thanks to the original version, found and modified from that given on Macosxhints.com.
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March 29th, 2007 @ 6:47 am
This works well but beware, it jettisons the metadata en route.
July 31st, 2007 @ 6:35 am
Thanks for the informations.. worked as expected. Keep on the good work!
November 2nd, 2007 @ 6:03 am
Hi Bruce,
you can try the tool I’m using – it’s free and relatively fast
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
Just download the free version and voila ! converting between several diff audio formats
Marin
May 3rd, 2009 @ 3:13 am
Thank you!
Because Songbird do not play wma by linux I decided to corvet all my wma files.
Best regards.