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How to convert AAC to MP3 on Mac OS X

1. install VLC 3. create a file called convert.sh on your desktop ie. ~/Desktop/convert.sh 4. chmod +x convert.sh 5. make the contents of convert.sh #!/bin/sh vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC" ext="mp3" dst="/Users/[your name]/Desktop/" for a in *$fmt; do $vlc -I dummy -vvv "./$a" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{mux=raw,dst=\"$dst$a.$ext\",access=file}" vlc://quit done 6. open terminal and cd to folder that has your AAC music files ie. ~/Desktop/AAC 7. then type ~/Desktop/convert.sh *.aac 8. sit back and relax as the files are converted Notes http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_Batch_Encode http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo_New#Example_commandline:_Converting_an_audio_file_to_a_MP3_file

windows server 2003 logon logoff loop

this saved my bacon when i client raid got out of sync (sil 0680 dual ide to be exact) and left me with two mirrored drives - booting up windows assigned c:\ to one of the drives and f:\ to the other and marked one as active and the other as system messing around with the raid controller somehow removed all the partitions on the c:\ volume so i had to get the f:\ to boot - which it would but after logging in it would log me off then i search for windows server 2003 logon logoff loop and found this (actually a pdf of this!) - which worked!! http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2006-02/msg01237.html Due to the various manipulations you performed, your system drive letter is now something other than C:. The easiest solution is probably to delete all current drive letter references and let Windows re-assign them. Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now delete all values that look like this: \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\