Converting AAC to WAV/MP3

[clone83]

hey everyone, can someone pleasde help me to convert my aac sound tracks to wav or mp3 so that i can re-encode my movies to rmvb? cause so far i have tried to mux the mkv file to avi with the aac soundtrack and then re-encode it to rmvb but when the conversion is done there is no sound... so can someone please help me with problem?:(

[Yong]

Please try to use FAAD2 for Win32 at Rarewares (http://rarewares.org/aac.html) to decode AAC to WAV ,
or use foobar2000 (http://foobar2000.org) audio player.;)

BTW i think this topic is belong to Audio Encoding Forum.:p

May be you don't need to convert AAC to WAV,
you can try to use mkvtoolnix to extract the AAC form MKV,
after done the MKV to RMVB conversion,
mux the AAC with RMVB with mkvtoolnix again, then you will end up with the Realvideo with AAC inside the MKV.:)

[clone83]

thank 4 the reply but i need a program with a gui as i dont know how to use the cmd line progs and all the programs i have found and the ones u suggested wont convert the file....

[Sirber]

Wrong forum, Karl please move it to Audio forum.

[Yong]

Originally posted by clone83
thank 4 the reply but i need a program with a gui as i dont know how to use the cmd line progs and all the programs i have found and the ones u suggested wont convert the file....

For GUI, please try foobar2000
(link at my last post ;))

[clone83]

yes but as i said, that program wont encode it.....

[Yong]

Originally posted by clone83
yes but as i said, that program wont encode it.....
foobar2000? this player will pop-up the console message if encounter any error, please post the error message here;)

[clone83]

INFO (CORE) : startup time: 3875 ms
INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback :
INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\Track2.aac" (0)
ERROR (foo_diskwriter) : Attempted to open with an unsupported waveform-audio format
ERROR (foo_diskwriter) : Conversion failed.

[Yong]

Attempted to open with an unsupported waveform-audio format
Is the AAC file can play in the foobar2000?
Convert AAC to Wav or MP3?

[clone83]

i have tried that but it doesnt seem to have any sound and it was taking forever

[Yong]

Could you upload the sample file?

[clone83]

have u got an ftp as i dont have one....

[Yong]

I don't have any ftp:p
sorry...
Is the file only failed to play in foobar2000?
What kind of tools you use to extract the aac?

[clone83]

i got told to use the mkvextract and the aac file plays by itself but when i use foobar to convert it, the converted file fails... and i also got told by a mate to download the aac decoders from the zoomplayer website... if im doing something wrong can u plz let me know...

[Yong]

AAC extracted by mkvextract should be play fine in any player that can decode AAC,
Many directshow filter can play AAC include ffdshow, 3ixv filter suite, mpegable DS filter, nero ds filter,
only if you install the AAC parser filter, get it from Rarewares AAC section (http://rarewares.org/aac.html),
and search for "AAC parser filter for DirectShow"

What version of the foobar2000 you use?
Get the updated version here (http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/foobar2000.php), v0.8.3.
If you want to convert the AAC to MP3, please get the LAME 3.90.3 stable bundle 2004-02-10 at
Rarewares MP3 section (http://rarewares.org/mp3.html) , and place the lame.exe and lame_enc.dll to the foobar2000 directory.

[clone83]

INFO (foo_clienc) : CLI encoder: LAME.EXE
INFO (foo_clienc) : Destination file: file://D:\TEST\Final Movie\000 .MP3
INFO (foo_clienc) : Source file: record://
INFO (foo_clienc) : 44100Hz 24bps 2ch
INFO (foo_clienc) : Encoding took 704969 milliseconds, speed 1.0x
ERROR (foo_nero) : Couldn't find Nero plugin directory
INFO (CORE) : attempting to edit file info : file://D:\TEST\Final Movie\000 .MP3
ERROR (foo_nero) : Couldn't find Nero plugin directory
INFO (CORE) : file info update successful on : file://D:\TEST\Final Movie\000 .MP3

i downloaded all the plugins and stuff including the new version but i keep getting this error

[Yong]

ERROR (foo_nero) : Couldn't find Nero plugin directory
You don't have nero install on system,
but convert wav to mp3 don't need the nero plugin.
you can try to remove the foo_nero.dll(at component folder),
and restart foobar2000.

I still don't know what problem you have,
the default diskwriter CLI option is already working and you don't have to change it,
please try to backup and remove the fooobar.cfg(foobar configuration file) file
and see can get them work or not;)