Hyperion's Corner not a corner - cop it!

[wagemagroth]

Hyperion claims to be able to use OS X Jaguar's resident ffmpeg to convert WMA's to MP3 or mp*. On my iMac (G3/600/256, OS X 10.2.8) when I try to do such a conversion, the Terminal consistently displays a message saying "Command not found" (once or twice "Utility/Library not found"). Methinks Apple in their infinite wisdom dropped those parts of the darwin ffmpeg that enabled Hyperion through Terminal.app to do its job, in favor of better security and smoother support of encryption and AAC.

A good time to add in a WMA>MP3 conversion feature is now, imo. Why? Two or three audio rippers on the Windows side rip exclusively in .wma, and I have friends with such apps who have a lot of good music they would care to share with me, and I'd care to burn as my own audio, except the most one can do on a Mac (to the best of my ken) is listen via Windows Media Player or Cleaner 6. Rather than put the onus on them to re-rip this stuff in WAV or MP3 with less-familiar softs, I'd like to be able to do the necessary conversion (and implicitly show that OS X is better than that other commercial platform with an X in the name) on my end. It looks as though your application could give me that edge, as you already list "reading" WMAs as one of its features.

I look forward to news on this front.

Steve Wright
sjwright68@charter.net

[major]

ffmpeg is not distributed in Darwin nor in OSX. You need to install it yourself. Concerning WMA conversion, ffmpegX can handle some specific WMA version formats. Use the "Audio to mp3" preset.