CVS snapshot of amaroK for rawhide?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed today that rawhide includes a snapshot of rhythmbox.  Could
> we have a snapshot of amaroK, too?  amaroK is a fantastic music player
> and now supports reading and writing ID3 tags in m4a files (AAC
> compression).  This enables me to play my Apple iTunes files (where
> all my music is stored).  I found a transcoder for m4a to ogg, but I
> had to run it under Wine and I couldn't figure out how to batch the
> processing.

Wine? Why not use mplayer -ao pcm to a fifo and encode with oggenc
from that fifo? It's a fast and scriptable solution.

> Also, I didn't want to lose audio quality in the
> conversion.  Ripping all my music to ogg would take a very long time,
> because I have a few thousand CDs.  I understand that rawhide won't
> have mp3/m4a audio file support, but maybe I could find the required
> packages in some other respository?

livna has/will have something for sure.

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