Converting m4a to mp3?
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- randommail
why isn't the solution obvious?
help please.
- Ruffian0
iTunes?
- Ruffian0
Edit - Preferences - Import Settings - MP3 Encoder - Bitrate
Right click on tracks - Create MP3 Version
- epic_rim0
This cannot be done with current consumer equipment. It has a lot to do with the data, it can't just be "converted", it must be transcoded. This, unfortunately, would require two processors, one to deal with the source data and then a second processor to handle to tanscoded data. I've asked a few technicians that work here in the building about how they would go about this kind of transformation and one of them recommended an inventor in Taipe that may have solved for this, but that the manufacturer was very concerned with espionage and didn't deal directly with foreigners.
I think your safest bet would be to contact the original owner of the m4a file (via email, phone, or fax) and talk to them about possibly using an alternative format. Transactions like this are common and could lead to friendships. I met a fellow who does CB and continuous wave (morse code) in his free time and we had a great discussion about radio, Esperanto and Korean Soju (who knew there were so many recipes!). He was willing to use the gif (pronounced jiff) format instead of SVG, which was a life saver, as the two file formats are not compatible.
- haThePublics
- truly epicRuffian
- classicmonospaced
- what the hell epic_rim.
haha. thanks but I'm all set.randommail
- spmitch0
what are you on about epic , there are tons of converter appsw out there - google m4a to mp3 convert
- reactions like this make it all worth it in the endmonospaced
- spmitch0
just use itunes convert to aac better quality than than mp3, identical encoding rates, as well as higher (and lower) sampling rates than MP3
- epic_rim0
spmitch, I don't have all the answers. I have been in the tech industry for almost two years now, though, so I am the authority in this thread. Your solution, using "encoding rates" and "sampling rates", is mostly techno gibberish that most laymen will see right through. For instance, why did you bu that extra "ac" in the first sentence? Did you mean to say: "just use itunes convert to a better quality mp3,"? Are you a Compaq PC user or an Apple Macintosh user?
randommail, the solution is not obvious because it isn't that simple.
Take this example: converting Celsius to Fahrenheit.
C=(F-32) x 5/9See what I mean? Now try applying that formula to m4a! The math just doesn't make sense. It's just too complicated. Believe me, I wish it was easier.
- spmitch0
you have been in tech for two whole years, wow, you are the authority, actually I have mac and various unix computers.
but you win, you are the authority
- wow, thank you so much for entertaining me post-lunch!NONEIS
- HHHHAAHAHAAAHHHAHA, omg, he fell for it again. fucking pricelessmonospaced
- duckofrubber0
sarcasm is afoot...
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- double failmonospaced
- single fail >:PNONEIS
- epic_rim0
spmitch, I have an associates degree in Unix and in PC/mac computers. I probably don't need to tell you, because you and I are both obviously more into computers than most people, but consumer computers can't be used to transcode files. Leading randommail on like this with your buzz words are just going to confuse him into purchasing software off of the internet that will only cause the alligator to appear in his taskbar.
Randommail, do this: contact this guy:
廖碩鵬
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang
Taipei, Taiwan 115You can explain to him that epic_rim sent you, give him this code: "banana", he'll trust you after hearing that. He charges a lot of money. Don't let him know about spmitch, though. People like spmitch that really wind him up.
- spmitch0
that was fun, off to the bar for more laughs
- LiaoShuopeng0
计算机不能转换音频文件。从来没有再次跟我联系!
- epic_rim0
oh man
- epic_rim0
How did you find this thread so quickly?
- LiaoShuopeng0
谷歌。 randommail 是一个傻瓜
- epic_rim0
OK. But what about spmitch's solution? LOL