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On this forum I found a script written by Bernhard Hartleb. This is much simpler than the previous step.

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Install mplayer: in the command line type sudo port install mplayer.

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Download and install MacPorts from a disk image.

Be careful to download the version matching your operating system version.

Download and install Xcode Developer Tools from the Mac Dev Center.

Warning! MPlayerOSX is a different thing, it doesn't work in the command line. This is more complicated than it might seem.

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It can be used to recursively traverse directories and replace wma's by mp3's.īelow I describe how to get the above three ingredients. make-mp3 – a handy script which puts together the two above programs.root privileges in order to install the above programs.lame – a command line audio encoder for Mp3's.mplayer – a command line audio (and video) player.Here's a list of ingredients that you'll need: There you go! It’s still not quite as nice as a direct MP3 export, but at least it’s now a simple 2-step process.It took me a while to figure out how to automatically convert wma files into mp3's on Mac OS, so I thought it might be useful to write down all the steps somewhere. If you want to further experiment with Automator, you could even use the “Choose from List” action to prompt you for a quality setting after you choose “Convert to mp3”. lame is extremely flexible and allows you to create many types of variable or constant bitrate MP3 files. Of course you can adapt this to whatever quality settings you prefer. This generates a pretty high quality variable bitrate MP3 file.

In the example above, I used “-V 2” as the quality setting for lame. You should see a “Convert to mp3” option at the bottom of the context menu, and clicking on it should result on an MP3 file in the same folder. Now open the Finder, locate a wave (or other audio) file, and right-click (or control-click) it. Here’s a screenshot of what this should look like:

Select “Save…” in the “File” menu and enter a service name, such as “Convert to mp3”.

In the prepopulated script body, change “echo” to “/usr/local/bin/lame -V 2”.

From the long list of actions on the left (optionally you can click in “Utilities” to narrow it down), select “Run Shell Script” and drag it into the gray area on the right.

At the top, change the “Service receives selected” dropdown to “audio files”, and “any application” to “Finder”.

Select “Service” as the document type, then click on “Choose”.

The next (and final) step is to set up an Automator workflow: But lame has been stable for a long time, so in reality this probably doesn’t matter. If you prefer a traditional installer, it looks like you can obtain this from Thalictrum (although their latest version is about a year old: 3.98.4 the latest lame version at this time is 3.99.3). MacPorts is a similar alternative package manager. Once Homebrew is installed, installing lame is as simple as running brew install lame in the Terminal. Personally, I’m using Homebrew, which provides a convenient way to install many open source packages. It is only officially released in source form, but there are several ways to obtain binaries for OSX. The main thing you need is lame, an open source MP3 encoder. I haven’t been able to figure out a way to export directly to MP3, but thankfully it’s fairly easy to set up an Automator workflow on OSX that allows you to conveniently convert any audio file to MP3 by right-clicking it in the Finder.

For distribution, this is probably what you want, but sometimes you want to create a small MP3 file to share with friends, etc. One minor Reason gripe is that it only exports audio files as AIFF or WAV, but not MP3.

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Easily convert audio files to MP3 on Mac OSX