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[bully]

Someone on another forum has posted this................i understand some of it.......any ideas??

Transferring WMA Audio - bout 700 albums to Linux, having lots of trouble with certain albums not playing in Amarock but others OK, no DRM involved can't figure out why. Converting the problem albums to Ogg or MP3 fixed the problem but had to do that on Windows and transfer back.

So decided to convert the whole lot, transfer once and back up the linux audio source file, however all the media tags got slaughtered and I am hacking through them one at a time to correct the info, this is boring me to death.

There has got to be a way to convert WMA media meta tags to MP3 standard tags somehow, tried several solutions nothing has worked so far.

Anybody got a meta tag converter that actually works? If so please enlighten me. Otherwise I am going to have to write some sort of script to do the job which will take longer than doing it album by album probably.

 

[KDF]

Piss easy

http://slated.org/linux_audio_conversion_with_ruby


And for the record the reason its causing you a headache is because you used a platform dependant proprietry closed source format. Use MP3/OGG etc in future !

Just for the record though I can play every format of windows media, you may need to update your codecs as most distro's don't come with WM9 support eg. Some of your songs may be WM8 (and play fine) while the WM9 ones may not play.

 

[bully]

Cheers KDF.....

I bow down to your geeky ways. ;-)

 

[KDF]

 

[Final Maxim]

crappy linux, tsk, should be using a proper OS like vista.

 

[ViolentJ]

crappy linux, tsk, should be using a proper OS like vista.

Nearly spat my sandwich out then!