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#1
LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2016
Location: Sin City
Distribution: Mint18Cinn.
Posts: 11
Rep:
Music Software
Can anyone recommend software for converting file properties? For instance, mp3 to AAC?
#2
LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 18,970
ffmpeg and
mencoder are the go-to audio conversion applications on Linux.
They are in the Mint repos.
1 members found this post helpful.
#3
Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2014
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
Posts: 1,363
Hi Z ...
#4
Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
faad = decoder
faac = encoder
ffmpeg = converts most every format.
$ ffmpeg -codecs
Code:
Codecs:
D..... = Decoding supported
.E.... = Encoding supported
..V... = Video codec
..A... = Audio codec
..S... = Subtitle codec
...I.. = Intra frame-only codec
....L. = Lossy compression
.....S = Lossless compression
-------
$ ffmpeg -codecs 2>&1 | grep -i aac
Code:
DEA.L. aac AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
D.A.L. aac_latm AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Coding LATM syntax)
#5
LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
ffmpeg.
converting from one lossy format (mp3) to another (AAC) is usually not recommended.
1 members found this post helpful.
#6
LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 22, MX 21 Fluxbox
Posts: 6,931
for command line is what I use. If needing a gui. I second the soundconverter app recommended by Rickkkk. Soundconverter is in Mint repos.
Simulated install shown on my rig < the -s simulates and shows what is done as a test run >
Code:
harry@biker:~
$ apt-get -s install soundconverter
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-gconf gstreamer0.10-plugins-good libart-2.0-2 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgail18 libgnome-2-0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl0 liborbit-2-0
liborbit2 python-gconf python-gnome2 python-gst0.10 python-pyorbit
Suggested packages:
libbonobo2-bin desktop-base libgnomevfs2-bin python-gnome2-doc python-gst0.10-dev python-gst0.10-dbg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Recommended packages:
gstreamer0.10-x libgnomevfs2-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-gconf gstreamer0.10-plugins-good libart-2.0-2 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgail18 libgnome-2-0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl0 liborbit-2-0
liborbit2 python-gconf python-gnome2 python-gst0.10 python-pyorbit soundconverter
0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Inst python-gconf (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
Inst python-pyorbit (2.24.0-7 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
Inst python-gnome2 (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
Inst python-gst0.10 (0.10.22-3 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
Inst soundconverter (2.1.3-1 Debian:8.8/stable [all])
Conf libart-2.0-2 (2.3.21-2 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
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Conf libgnome-2-0 (2.32.1-5 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
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Conf python-gconf (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
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Conf python-gnome2 (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 Debian:8.8/stable [i386])
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Conf soundconverter (2.1.3-1 Debian:8.8/stable [all])
Last edited by rokytnji; 06-10-2017 at 09:41 AM .
#7
LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Linux Mint, Devuan, OpenBSD
Posts: 7,001
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ondoho
converting from one lossy format (mp3) to another (AAC) is usually not recommended.
This is a very important warning. Going from lossy to lossy you will lose a very large amount of the sound quality because what the two codecs will toss out different parts of the signal. You'll get very bad, obvious distortion of the sound.
You can on the other hand convert from a lossless to either a lossy or another lossless format.
Wherever you got the MP3s from, you'll have to go back and get FLAC this time and then convert from your FLAC archive to AAC.
#8
Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
avconv is a fork of ffmpeg, so the syntax is mostly the same between the two. I normally go the reverse route.
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