Converting 3ga to mp3
From Mike Beane's Blog
I tend to use the Samsung's default Voice Recorder app when recording tunes, however it saves in the .3ga format and is somewhat useless for directly sharing it with others.
Requirements:
In order to get the file into a usable format I do these steps:
- Record the sound
- Share it to my Google Drive
- Retrieve the file on computer
- Open a command window, go to the FFMPEG install directory and type the following:
- ffmpeg.exe -b 256k -i "c:\path\to\3ga\file.3ga" "c:\path\to\savemp3\file.mp3"
- The mp3 will be in the destination directory.
You can do more with FFMPEG however this gets to me where I can edit the file in Audacity and go from there with it.
Example:
c:\Program Files\Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)\Plug-Ins\FFMPEG>ffmpeg.exe -b 128k -i "C:\Users\me\Downloads\Voice 002.3ga" "C:\Users\me\Downloads\Voice 002.mp 3" FFmpeg version git-6b51f23, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --cc=mingw32-gcc-4.2.4.exe --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --ena ble-avisynth --enable-libfaac --enable-libspeex --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3l ame --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared - -extra-ldflags=-L/local/lib --extra-cflags=-I/local/include -fno-common libavutil 49.12. 0 / 49.12. 0 libavcodec 52.10. 0 / 52.10. 0 libavformat 52.23. 1 / 52.23. 1 libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 built on Jan 8 2009 12:50:21, gcc: 4.2.4 (TDM-1 for MinGW) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'C:\Users\me\Downloads\Voice 002.3ga': Duration: 00:02:22.03, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 128 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, mono, s16 Output #0, mp3, to 'C:\Users\me\Downloads\Voice 002.mp3': Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: libmp3lame, 44100 Hz, mono, s16, 64 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding [libmp3lame @ 0x3cc0f0]lame: output buffer too small (buffer index: 8359, free bytes: 281) size= 1116kB time=142.84 bitrate= 64.0kbits/s video:0kB audio:1116kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.002800%