Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Ric Otte wrote:
> 
> I looked at the wikipedia link you provided, and it linked to the
> following:
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
> According to it, apple lossless is data stored in a MP4 container with
> the extension .m4a.  It is interesting that very different encodings
> can use the extension .m4a.

Yes, because m4a actually is only a container format, not an audo encoder.

> I looked at some files encoded with apple lossless on a mac, and they
> have the extension .m4a; the only program I've found that can play
> them back on debian is amarok.

Using amarok you can convert all your m4a files to flac. Just download the
transcode plugin for amarok.
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Felipe Sateler