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Best converter for MP3 to AAC under Linux?
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:38 pm
by DaddyHoggy
I have discovered that my new Wii comes with Photo Channel 1.1 - this means having just copied 1.5GB of my music collection onto the 2GB SD card I've just bought none of it plays because Photo Channel 1.1 only plays AAC!
Putting "MP3 to AAC conversion Linux" gets me a lot of hits so I was looking for some personal recommendations - ease and speed are what I'm looking for - although quality would be good too - I have no desire to re-rip my CD collection!
I can understand the addition of AAC but why stop the playing of MP3!!! V. Annoyed!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:41 pm
by 0235
well, i had to find a SID emulator before i could listen to music i like
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:42 pm
by Commander McLane
iTunes?
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:24 pm
by goran
itunes doesn't play sids.
I need to find SID player for UIQ3 or sony erricson W910 or W890...
for the best ripping and transcoding/conversion i use XLD
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:38 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Pity that I asked for a converter for Linux (title and post) and you've pointed my at a converter for the mac... I was briefly quite excited.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:51 pm
by goran
I was misguided by McLanes iTunes suggestion.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:20 pm
by DaddyHoggy
I too missed McLane's suggestion - or else I filtered it simply as a "D'oh!" moment from the great commander.
So, just to re-iterate - MP3 to AAC converter for LINUX - suggestions, personal recommendations please....
Otherwise the alternative is <shudders> push my entire music collection from my Ubuntu partition into my XP one - reboot - install iTunes and do the conversion there - not the end of the world but if I don't have to venture into the world of M$ then I won't - otherwise it'd be like admitting that I'm still reliant on M$ - so come on Linux users - help me out!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:21 pm
by Gimi
0235 wrote:well, i had to find a SID emulator before i could listen to music i like
And where would I find a SID emulator.
(And a few tears forming in the corner of my eye.)
More importantly, where can I find the Rob Hubbard tracks to play on it.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:22 pm
by goran
Gimi wrote:0235 wrote:well, i had to find a SID emulator before i could listen to music i like
And where would I find a SID emulator.
(And a few tears forming in the corner of my eye.)
More importantly, where can I find the Rob Hubbard tracks to play on it.
SID player for mac:
http://www.sidmusic.org/sidplay/mac/
Complete SID collection (almost all music ever done on C64):
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/Downloads/index.html
Also download links for players at the bottom.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:13 am
by Frame
found the sid for space patrol...
your avatar...
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:36 pm
by Commander McLane
Sorry if I confused you here. I just had the idea that iTunes
can convert into AAC (it's its native format), but wasn't sure whether it's available for Linux. Hence the questionmark.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:04 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Having investigated some more it looks like it's adouble process under linux - something to convert to wav something else to convert to aac - may have to bite the bullet and admit defeat, and slope across to XP...
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:39 pm
by JohnnyBoy
DaddyHoggy wrote:...may have to bite the bullet and admit defeat, and slope across to XP...
Or do the conversion online...
http://www.zamzar.com
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:58 pm
by DaddyHoggy
ah-ha!! Looks promising - how long to upload/convert/download 1.5GB of music in 100MB chunks on a 2Mb/s download 256kb/s upload I wonder...
Nice one JB - will make a start over the weekend!
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:58 am
by JohnnyBoy
Well, at least it doesn't cost anything to give it a try and see how practical a solution it is...
...and if it's no good, you could try the Freeware Advanced Audio Coder for Linux:
http://www.google.com/search?q=freeware ... io%20coder