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# wmadec
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*The worst media conversion tool*
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## Building
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You can build this tool on non-Windows operating systems. You need to have
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nuget and msbuild (e.g. from mono) installed. You can then run the `build.sh`
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script (possibly with `sh build.sh`, since I use `nix-shell` in the shebang).
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If you use Nix you don’t have to install anything, just run the build script,
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it takes care of installing the dependencies automatically.
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## Usage
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The usage of this tool is very simple. It reads compressed wma data from stdin
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and writes uncompressed PCM to stdout. It has no way of communicating the
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sample rate and bit depth, figuring that out is up to you (ffmpeg’s decoder
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manages to extract that correctly, otherwise just assume 44.1kHz/16bit).
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## Motivation
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Since ffmpeg’s wma decoder fails to decode (especially short) wma files
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accurately, I had to use the only working wma decoder I know of: The one built
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into Microsoft Windows (MediaFoundation).
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For some reason, even if you manage to get the (discontinued?) Windows Media
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Player working on a modern Windows machine, it only offers the option to burn
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WMA files to a CD, not to convert them to other formats (at least I did not
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find such an option).
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## License
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[WTFPL](WTFPL)
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