m4p file conversion app

[nick]

Hi

I do not have any m4p files so cannot try, but make sure ffmepeg and lame
are installed and try;

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ffmpeg -i oldfile.m4p newfile.mp3

IF this works I am sure someone can come up with a script for bulk
conversion
I do not know if it will work with DRM files

Nick

[nick]

HI

To install ffmepeg and lame, goto Synaptic and install from
there

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sudo synpatic

But m4p means they have DRM on them as opposed to m4a so I am not sure
it will work

There are programs for windows to convert which "may" run under
wine

The other way is to burn to a CD-RW and then rip as Mp3
not good if you have thousands

Nick

[nick]

Hi

ffmpeg and lame should be in your repositories, unless you are using
the lite version (note I spelt ffmpeg wrong in last post.)

You could try http://hymn-project.org/

A deb package is available at; http://ftp.metu.edu.tr/pub/linux/debian ... in/h/hymn/

Nick

[ginjabunny]

I tried something like this a while back after I copied some files off a colleagues iPod, I thought maybe I could convert them but I couldn't do anything with the m4p those files because they are DRM'ed and encrypted, I think the encryption is tied to the iPod and iTunes that created the files. It seems the only way round it is to use the original iTunes to burn the tracks to CD then you can rip them (can you get virtual CD-RW to save time??)

I also got some m4a files which weren't DRM'ed and could convert these easily, using faad or mplayer to get wav files then use lame to convert them to mp3.
If anyone is interested, I was looking at writing some scripts but I found something on wikipedia using find to do mass conversion really easily, run the following commands from the folder contaning all the sub-folders and files you want to convert (if you have loads then you need lots of space to create lots of wav files)
find -name '*.m4a' -exec faad '{}' ';'
find -name '*.wav' -exec lame '{}' ';'
find -name '*.wav' -delete
worked for me I then used gprename to rename any .wav.mp3 to .mp3

Hope this helps