tutorial: Using ffmpeg to batch convert cd audio files to mp3

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 11, 2010

[ Thanks to Erik for
this link. ]

“I guess quite a few joomla administrators regularly
run into batch conversion issues. You have an entire folder of
files in the one format, and now you need the same files, but in
another format.

“Today I ran into a batch conversion issue in a surprising way.
My wife came home with a “Made in China” MD-602 set of speakers
that accepts input from a mobile phone, a phone memory, or a USB
memory stick. She wanted to play an audio CD on the device, by
copying the songs to a USB memory stick. So, I grabbed the audio
CD, and I saw that the tracks on an audio CD are supposedly encoded
in .wav format. On the device’s packaging, it lists the audio
formats that the device accepts as input: .mp3 and .mp4.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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