I recently installed Gentoo Linux on my computer and felt that amarok would be an exremely cool music player to use. In building a media collection, I ripped most of my music collection in .wav format (k3b, for some reason, didn't like ripping mp3s although I had the gentoo USE tag for mp3) - however now Amarok will not recognize .wav files as part of my music collection, and folders containing .wav files must be manually added to my playlist. Considering I have 4 or 5 albums ripped to .wav, I am somewhat reluctant to try to convert my media collection's file format. I am running the latest version of Amarok (1.4.5), and I have searched the configuration menu throughly, and previous threads in this forum have been of no help.

Can somebody either tell me how to get Amarok to recognize .wav files as part of my collection, or tell me a terminal command to mass-convert my .wav files into .mp3?

EDIT: I'm using the xine engine, if that changes anything. If it does, I'd gladly change engines.

this is because .wav files don't contain metadata, iirc. use the files browser for these tracks.

for encoding, try lame.