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Convert wma to mp3 on Linux
Today i wanted to listed to some old tracks, which for some reason i had saved in .wma format. Added them to Rhythmbox and it complained about needing a plugin which it didn't find. I fired up Google and learned that i need to install some gstreamer codecs, but with my files it still didn't worked. That so, i decided to convert the wma files to mp3 using the Perl Audio Converter. Install was painless on Ubuntu 10.04:
sudo apt-get install pacpl
After install, go to the folder that contains your .wma files and run:
pacpl -t mp3 *.wma
September 18th, 2010 - 21:04
It works very well. Thank you very much.
September 18th, 2010 - 22:11
I went fine. Only one file with a “‘” in it didn’t work. But after I removed it everything worked just fine.
June 4th, 2011 - 18:42
Amazing! A chat session containing info that really works!
2 very simple lines on the command line and voila!
Well done, thanks very much