<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 11 June 2009 21:12:24 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: > > He's copied the entire itunes library/directory from his mac to his new > > Linux box. > > > > How can I convert all these m4a files to mp3? I tried lame but it gives > > me an 'unsupported format' error. > > Why MP3? If you're converting them in the first place, convert them to Ogg > Vorbis! > > Also note that converting from a lossy format to another lossy format will > necessarily degrade the quality. > > Kevin Kofler good point. Will lame do this for me as well?</body></html>