We use lame to conver WAV and downsample MP3 files uploaded to our server by clients.

Some of our clients also upload WMA files. We'd like to be able to convert from WMA to MP3 on the server using the command line so that we can automate the process somewhat with Perl and PHP scripts.

Can somebody point me in the right direction? I'm assuming there must either be a conversion program already or some way to pipe the audio output from the WMA to lame. (ideally we'd like a solution that's faster than real time -. e.g. we don't want to wait 1 hour to convert a WMA to MP3 by having to 'play' and 'pipe' in real-time.)

Currently we're downloading the WMA files and using EasyWMA to convert to MP3 (Mac OS X) and then reuploading the MP3s.

you are using ffmpeg to convert using a GUI, so you could:

1. use ffmpeg by CLI, OR
2. use mplayer by CLI, OR
3. check out wma2wav
http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/wma2wav/wma2wav-0.1b3.tar.bz2

if you are on a debian system you can use the packages at rarewares/debian (check my sig)


later

Rarewares.org hasn't been functional for a while now (it's suspended) so i wouldn't forward people to that site any more :|