[Athen] Seeking recommendations for M4A converter

[Lisa Brandt]

Oh, nice! Yeah, I suppose WSL would be overkill for just converting files.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:37 PM Deborah Armstrong <
armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> wrote:


> I have found an easier solution: winff. It is ffmpeg with a graphical

> front end. You still have access to the command line, either from the real

> Windows command line or from inside the graphical window.

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> Winff is screen reader and keyboard friendly, works in Win10, lets you add

> presets and you can dispense with it altogether and just use the native

> ffmpeg. Very cool!

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Lisa Brandt

> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 12:10 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Seeking recommendations for M4A converter

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> Debee, if you have a version of Windows that's WSL-capable, you could run

> ffmpeg in a native Linux command line!

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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:07 PM Deborah Armstrong <

> armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> wrote:

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> Wow! I forgot about ffmpeg. Got to find a windows build as I don’t want to

> build from scratch on my work computer, but I use it all the time in Linux

> for fun to convert videos for my hubby, who tends to fill up our server’s

> hard drive! I need a better grasp in the obvious.

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Joseph Polizzotto MA

> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 11:54 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Seeking recommendations for M4A converter

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> Debee,

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> If you don't mind working from the command line, you can also use FFmpeg

> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ffmpeg.org/__;!!A-B3JKCz!Smev1lclUsoqLGy5v45VlF0WiVF0cFRfvslsJ03qR57JSLy1QrDkBXMW7kKXfpH0xPXoZQ$>.

> You can type a command like the following in the terminal to get your

> desired file:

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> ffmpeg -i input.m4a output.wav

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> You can also try converting directly to MP3 from M4A and see if the

> quality is still too poor for your needs. Here is a command that can do

> that;

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> ffmpeg -i input.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k output.mp3

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> It is possible to write a short script that does this process in a loop

> for all of the files in a directory.

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> I came across this article that touches on the decline of usability of

> many desktop applications

> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datagubbe.se/decusab/__;!!A-B3JKCz!Smev1lclUsoqLGy5v45VlF0WiVF0cFRfvslsJ03qR57JSLy1QrDkBXMW7kKXfpHKsPMWeA$>.

> I thought you could relate to a lot of what is said there. Those are also

> arguments in favor of using the command line! (BTW I am not referring to

> any desktop applications mentioned in this thread).

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> HTH,

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> Joseph

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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:43 AM Deborah Armstrong <

> armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> wrote:

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> Now that we have so many webinars/courses in zoom, I’m seeking a simple

> converter for Windows that will create .wav files from .M4A. The editor I

> prefer to use likes wav files or Mp3, but if you convert to mp3 you reduce

> the audio quality just a bit, so I’d prefer to convert to wav, edit it and

> then convert to Mp3.

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> When I record lectures, my main tool for note-taking is to edit the

> recording about 75% so I have only a short audio file to retain.

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> This is also useful when I’m working on a recording someone else made.

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> --Debee

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