I found a great program for converting my audio files from any format (flac, ape, spx, bonk, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, wma, etc) to any other format. It’s called transKode and so far, it has actually supported all the formats I required, which was my biggest demand. I’ve got a Rio Carbon and my wife has a Creative Zen. I’ve been enjoying a lot of the wonderful free for non-commercial purposes music from sites such as Jamendo. Jamendo’s site only lets me download the .ogg files via torrent, and since neither of my players support that format, I’ve been looking for a program that converts them nicely for me.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the Ubuntu repositories, so I had to compile it. However, it was a lot easier than I had anticipated. I did have to compile one dependency, Taglib, and that was even easier.
Here’s the break down of the steps I went through, including taglib.
change to the folder where transkode was downloaded
cd /home/vmadmin/Downloads/transkode-0.7beta/
run the program to extract transkode. i used arK because it was easier than looking at a man page. i opened konquer in the current window using
konqueror $PWD&
change to source folder
cd transkode/
configure the setup
./configure
make the components
make
install the app
sudo make install
cleanup the source directory
make clean
download taglib
change to download folder
uncompress taglib
tar xzf taglib-1.4.tar.gz
change to the source folder
cd taglib-1.4/
configure the setup
./configure
make the components
make
install the components
sudo make install
cleanup
make clean
remove anything left behind
rm -f -R transkode-0.7beta/
rm -f -R taglib-1.4/
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