On 28/08/11 18:40, George OLson wrote:
I am migrating my music over from itunes to run on Amarok (or another player that may be better and can sync an ipod touch running ios 4.2.1). The first step is to copy my music files from my itunes directories into the music folder on my hard drive, /home/music.
The problem is, I have about 1/3 or 1/4 of these files purchased directly from itunes, and so they are in the proprietary itunes format, *.m4p.
I will not be sharing my purchased music with anyone, so I will not be violating any copyright laws, so no worries there.
However, I still need to be able to read these songs with the music player in OS 11.4, and I still need to be able to manage my ipod touch in OS without going back to windows.
My first thought is that I would like to segregate all the m4p files into one directory folder. /homes/music has multiple sub-directories with the artists names, and those have sub-directories with album names on them.
Do yourself one big and great favour: install mc (Midnight Commander) and use it for almost all directory/file work. When you have it installed, create a directory in your home with a name of your choice; run mc from a command line in the konsole and select Command>Find File. Type in *.mp4 in the search field and type in "/" as the starting point. Let mc find all the files on your system (including any in your Windows installation - provided that the Windows partitions have been mounted of course) and after mc has found all the *.mp4 files select the option at the bottom of the search window called Panelize; this will put all the directories and the *.mp4 files within them into a panel on the left side of mc. Then using F6 (but preferrably F5 at your level of experience) copy (F5) or F6 (move) those files to the newly created directory in your home directory which you can find on the right side of mc. I will leave it to you to work out how to select all those *.mp4 files in the panel. However, I will you give you a hint: if you press the "+" key on the numeric keypad then type in "*.mp4" all such files will be highlighted in yellow.
I was thinking the command line would be faster than one by one, if there is a command line program similar to 'mv' that will look into a directory and all its sub-directories to find files of type *.m4p, and move them to a separate directory.
From there I can work with them in some way. At the very least I will know which ones are in the m4p format so that I can go back to my windows pc, burn them to audio cd (if there are not too many), and then rip them back to mp3.
Or, if there is a better way to just use amarok or some other program to read all the files, find the m4p files, and convert them, that would be the easiest.
The application called vlc will play anything you can throw at it. I use it to watch digital TV, play all my music and anything which comes from YouTube. BC -- "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Reagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org