I needed to convert a few m4a files to mp3. After looking in Internet. I found a nice way working with fedora (see this thread):
$> faad -o songfile.wav songfile.m4a
$> lame songfile.wav songfile.mp3
$> rm songfile.wav
Note that the command faad differs a little from the one given in the thread, but man faad did not seem to offer the way given in the thread.
So I performed a small bash command script:
$> for a in m4a-files/*.m4a ; do filename=`basename "$a"`; faad -o ess.wav "$filename" ; lame ess.wav `basename "$filename" .m4a `.mp3; done ; rm ess.wav
if faad2 and lame are not on your system, they can be installed from rpmfusion using:
root $> yum -y install lame faad2
