Sound File Format Q

[David Mangani]

David Mangani wrote:

> Anthony J. Mirabella wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure if mplayer has input plugins for all those files, but if it does you can use `mplayer -ao pcm <filename> > file.wav` to get wav files.
>>
>>On 18:35 Sat 24 Jul     , David Mangani wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>   I do some work with various audio files in a variety of formats. I 
>>>use spc, it, midi, and mod files most of the time. I use xmms with 
>>>various input plugins to listen to these files, but I'd like to know if 
>>>there might be a way to convert them to wav files to be burned to cds. I 
>>>also use Audacity audio editor for certain tasks. Unfortunately this app 
>>>will not do the conversion either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Thank you both for the replys, I do have Mplayer, however I am not 
> that familiar with it as I have only used it to watch dvd's. I did 
> some reading about Sox, however it wasn't clear to me that it 
> supported all the formats I use. Having said that, I did not d'load it 
> and try it. I am very interested in the Wav output plugin for xmms. I 
> did not even know xmms would output files at all for 
> burning/recording. I will check into that first I think.
>
> Thanks again.
> Dave
>
Just to let you know. I used the diskwriter output plugin and it worked 
perfectly. I have nice wave files ready for burning now.I never knew 
xmms would do that. I feel kind of dumb for asking, but thanks for the 
answers :)

Dave

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