You Tube and i-tunes

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fermi wrote: »

Sounds good.

Off to look and see if there is a Linux version or source I can compile. I suspect not, but you never know........

MediaCoder works on Linux if you use a bit of Wine :beer: :

MediaCoder on Linux

fermi

opportunity_cost wrote: »

MediaCoder works on Linux if you use a bit of Wine :beer: :

MediaCoder on Linux

Yep. I'd found that.

Normally use the 'native' *nix tools to rip/encode straight from the shell, but a nice GUI is hard to find. As long as it doesn't slow the encoding I don't mind.

pennymakespounds

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i've failed ! ..

downloaded it ok ...

did 1) ok
but 2) Change the Output Folder (top right hand corner) to a folder of your choice if desired...... didn't understand any of the folders shown so left it as "original folder" .. but as it downloaded .. "stste" showed "error" and the download failed .

what have i done wrong ?

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pennymakespounds, it sounds like you're trying to extract the audio from either video files that carry no sound or from files that are not video files altogether.

If you're trying to rip the audio from a DVD and you add the contents of the DVD's VIDEO_TS folder to MediaCoder you'll get something like this:



(The smaller files that have no sound are skipped by MediaCoder and an 'Error' shows next to them. The rest are processed OK.)

What's the extension (.VOB? .AVI? .WMV?), Size and Type for the files that you added to your MediaCoder?

pennymakespounds

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think that's got me a bit lost .... but think i did get a bit further soomehow .

If i go to "start" then "my music" there is a file "i tunes" ... it has a few folder icons .. main one "i-tunes music" .. which has folder icons for the artists that have music within my i tunes system . I found one strange folder .. which then has in it icons called "AVI" .. about a dozen and each is actually the sound which plays on a windows media player

think all i need is to know how to then get them onto my i tunes ..don't understand how they're in that file but can't see them anywhere in my i-tunes

pennymakespounds

opportunity costs .. to answer your question ..

trying to cut/paste the box like you have but failed ! ..

couple of small entries and handful of 1023mb... dvd/mpeg2 and shows as "ready"

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iTunes can't play .AVI files. You have to convert them first. Do this:

1. Open Windows Explorer: Start --> Accessories --> Windows Explorer

2. Go to 'My Documents\My Music\iTunes' and locate the .AVI files you wish to convert (they could be there or in some iTunes sub-folder, find out exactly where those .AVI files are).

3. Run MediaCoder.

4. Click on this button . Set your Output Folder to My Documents\My Music\iTunes --> OK... like so:



4. File --> Add File --> Look in: (the folder where the .AVI files are, from step 2 above) --> Select all (hold down CTRL key + left click on files) the .AVI files you want to add to MediaCoder --> Open.

5. Transcode --> Transcode Audio Only.

MediaCoder will convert those .AVI files to iPod-friendly .m4a files.

pennymakespounds wrote: »

opportunity costs .. to answer your question ..

trying to cut/paste the box like you have but failed ! ..

couple of small entries and handful of 1023mb... dvd/mpeg2 and shows as "ready"

From there you just need to do... Transcode --> Transcode Audio Only (the 1023MB .VOB files and any smaller file that has sound should convert OK). Do the above first though. Once you've managed to convert those .AVI files and you've seen how the program works, it'll be easier for you to convert those other files in that VIDEO_TS folder.

pennymakespounds

opportunity cost ... did points 1 to 5 .. seems that i succeeded !....
on my my music ... i-tunes ... there appearreed half a dozen icons "mpeg4" .. and on clicking each one .. it transferred into my i tunes system.

first check .. audio is fine ,,, but appears that each "file" was just over 17 minutes .. so they don't start at beginning of a song .. just cut at the 17+ mins ? .

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pennymakespounds wrote: »

first check .. audio is fine ,,, but appears that each "file" was just over 17 minutes .. so they don't start at beginning of a song .. just cut at the 17+ mins ? .

That's because those files were once a big file that was split into equal sized chunks, so unfortunately you're gonna get unfinished songs and songs not starting at the beginning at the end and start of each file.

There's not a lot you can do about that. MediaCoder just converts the files as they are. You'd need to use an audio editor like Audacity if you wanted to smooth out those rough edges but audio editing is a much more complex task than audio ripping.