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I also searching for the same information. I want to video to audio converter tool. But I could not get a proper result then I have been using clipgrab for youtube to mp3 converter purpose. It was a very userfriendly tool because I can convert video to audio convert through that tool.
Use the free Documents app and its built-in Browser to go to https://ytmp3.cc or similar conversion site, use YouTube link to convert to MP3 and download or download as a video (MP4).
Because you used the MP4 extension for video.
Use MP3 extension instead for audio.
This is one reason I love the forum. There's so many questions I wouldn't have asked or things I wouldn't have thought about that actually works.
Thanks @Samu for the m4a to mp4 hint. I'll probably incorporate it into one of my iOS Shortcuts. I knew AIFF and WAV would work, but I didn't know that M4A was similar to MP4.
I usually just use m4a, but it would be nice if mp3 was added to AudioShare.
I would have thought AudioShare would do that already. 😞
mp3 used to be non-free proprietary format, so it was often not included by default in audio applications. The patent expired in 2017 so now it's free from royalty payments. This could be the explanation of why it wasn't in there from the beginning. As for it not being there now? Maybe no-one has asked the developer directly - or it's on the list but not at a high priority.
You can take an m4a in AudioShare, rename, uncheck keep extension, and change to mp3. I’ve done that several times so my friend could load a looped mp3 Of some beats I made onto his arcade cabinet.
Thank you for the tip.
m4a files aren't MP3 files though. They are a variant of mpeg-4 encoded audio . So, probably changing the extension to MP4 might be better. MP3 uses different encoding.
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All I can say is that it works.
The app he uses probably also plays MP4 and correctly detects the correct format for the misnamed file. Many apps won't do that.
@Poppadocrock you sure.
I am but after rereading it says in the US only....
@stormbeats said:
From http://kymatica.com/apps/audioshare
Can AudioShare convert to mp3?
iOS doesn’t provide an mp3 encoder. The mp3 format is covered with patents and providing my own mp3 encoding could mean patent infringement, something I can’t risk. AudioShare doesn’t generate enough money to pay the expensive mp3 license. http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html
@j_liljedahl Sorry for calling you on this.
I thought the patent for mp3 expired 3 years ago, which allows developers to make their own mp3 encoding?
Source:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
FWIW, Auditor does mp3 and can do batch conversion.
It seems to me people are not aware that Auditor is as capable as it is. It does so much. Sure, it has a learning curve but what fully-featured app doesn’t? I’m doing a lot right now with just Auditor and Zenbeats.
Maybe the audioshare dev dint notice either. 🤔😂
I did notice back then, and thought I might add MP3 encoding in AudioShare in the future. After that, I forgot about it. The only reason to make MP3's is for playback on old MP3 players etc that doesn't support M4A.
However, to add MP3 encoding I'd need an open-source mp3 encoding code library with a license that's compatible with closed-source apps distributed on AppStore (so MIT would work but not GPL, etc)
Oh yeah the Blender 3D team said the same thing. Open source and Apple = 🤬
To convert WAV to MP3, Tunelf Audio Converter could a good option for you. With it, you can convert any audio to other formats with the original audio quality and complete metadata information.
@j_liljedahl, the LAME encoder is pretty good and uses the lgpl license so can be used commercially https://lame.sourceforge.io/license.txt. You just can’t use the decoder.
In most cases the 'file extension renaming trick' works since it's just a way to 'fool' the OS to forward the file to the correct app as most apps no longer depend on the 'file extension' to determine the format but also scan thru the content of the file.
(For example VLC happily plays movie files with .MOD extension and MOD Files with .AVI extension etc. etc).
The problem on for example Android & Windows raises when there is no 'handler' for *.m4a thus the file needs to be renamed...
...and yeah, I stay away from both Android & Windows like the plague, but that's me...
Why even bother with MP3 when MP4/M4A provides same or even better quality at the same bitrates...
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