Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:33:12AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 08:01:15PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > Hi Adam, thanks for bringing Opus to my (our) attention. I looked it up and > > it does sound enticing > > > > However, looking at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ there does

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 08:01:15PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Hi Adam, thanks for bringing Opus to my (our) attention. I looked it up and > it does sound enticing > > However, looking at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ there doesn't seem to be > anything about converting files to Opus. I've never use

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-02 Thread Robert Storey
> From: Adam Borowski > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter > > Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter > If your target machine is anything non-ancient, you want opus, it thoroughly > beats both mp3 and aac

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-01 Thread fuumind
Thanks! It seems I will have to look at going down that route after all. /fuumind ons 2016-06-01 klockan 19:39 -1000 skrev Joel Roth: > fuumind wrote: > > I wish to convert several thousands of audio files mostly in mp3 format > > to AAC using the Soundconverter application. So far I have install

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-01 Thread fuumind
Thanks for the input! My target machine is an anchient feature phone that supports mp3 and AAC only. Its limited storage space combined with a speaker that does not make high bitrates justice tells me that AAC is the best choise of codec in this case. /fuumind tor 2016-06-02 klockan 08:19 +0200 s

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:22:38AM +0200, fuumind wrote: > I wish to convert several thousands of audio files mostly in mp3 format > to AAC I don't get why one would want to convert _to_ AAC. It's a format both bad and proprietary, thus hardly supported by free software at all. It wins with mp3

Re: [DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-01 Thread Joel Roth
fuumind wrote: > I wish to convert several thousands of audio files mostly in mp3 format > to AAC using the Soundconverter application. So far I have installed the > application and the packages gstreamer$VERSION-plugins-$CODECCOLLECTION > where VERSION=('0.10' '1.0') and CODECCOLLECTION=('base' 'g

[DNG] Converting audio to AAC using Soundconverter

2016-06-01 Thread fuumind
I wish to convert several thousands of audio files mostly in mp3 format to AAC using the Soundconverter application. So far I have installed the application and the packages gstreamer$VERSION-plugins-$CODECCOLLECTION where VERSION=('0.10' '1.0') and CODECCOLLECTION=('base' 'good' 'bad' 'ugly') - do