Questions tagged [m4a]

m4a is a compressed audio file format

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How to convert a m4a sound file to mp3?

I tried to convert an .m4a file to an .mp3 file using ffmpeg with the following command: $ ffmpeg -i music.m4a music.mp3 Unfortunately, I got a zero byte-sized file returned as output. The output of ...
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How can I rebuild the faac package to get mp4/m4a support and higher bitrates?

The copy of faac under Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 has 2 limitations: It does not have mp4/m4a support It cannot use high bitrates How can I rebuild faac, using correct Debian packaging techniques, to ...
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Embedding album art in m4a files?

I have a directory of m4a files together with a single album art image named cover.jpg. How can I 'embed' this album art image into the m4a files using the command line?
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All kinds of music players cannot play m4a files, throwing "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."

So I've carefully checked all those similar questions posted, tried their solutions. Just in case that I've missed anything, here are the packages info for gstreamer installation: Also ubuntu-...
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Clementine can't play m4a files. missing plugin issue cannot be solved

Many suggest to delete ~/.gstreamer-0.10/ and install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad. But when I try installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad apt-get tells me it's installed at latest version. And when I ...
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