[MPlayer-users] mpa audio format - conversion to mp3

[Nico Sabbi]

Nick Rout wrote:

>I was trying to help someone who wants to convert an mpa file to mp3 so
>that he can play it in some portable device. 
>
>I thought it would be easy, but I don't seem to be able to find much on
>what an mpa file actually is! wikipedia doesn't tell me, and "every file
>format in the world" at whatis.techtarget.com tells me "MPEG-related
>file (MIME type 'mpeg')"
>
>Before I go tell him something wrong and feel like an idiot,
>would/should  something like this work?
>
>mencoder file.mpa -oac mp3lame -o file.mp3
>
>Cheers.
>  
>

mpa stands for "mpeg audio", so technically speaking layers 1/2/3 all fit
in the category, although usually mpa is used to mean mp2.

$ mencoder file.mpa -oac mp3lame -o file.mp3 -of rawaudio -ovc frameno 

will do the job