Any suggestions for a good, free audio converter for Mac? I used to use Max.app but it has long become abandonware and is now super buggy and crashy. I just need something I drop a couple (or 20 thousand) Apple Lossless files into and let it crank away making me some AAC compressed files or some MP3 or whatever.
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Handbrake works a treat on many files ...– Solar MikeCommented May 18, 2018 at 4:57
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1XLD though I still usually use Max, even if it is abandonware. Never tried throwing more than a couple or three albums at a time at it, though.– TetsujinCommented May 18, 2018 at 6:14
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1XLD is pretty good. Using from long time.– PratikCommented May 18, 2018 at 7:41
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@SolarMike does handbrake do audio files?– l008comCommented May 18, 2018 at 9:11
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FFMPEG and a simple bash script will get the job done. FFMPEG is the same set of libraries that are included with products like Handbrake.
The basic syntax is very simple:
ffmpeg -i inputfile outputfile
If you wanted to convert a FLAC to MP4, you would simply enter
ffmpeg -i inputfile.FLAC to outputfile.MP4
To convert a number of files a simple bash script like the one below will convert
for file in /foo/bar/*.mp3
do
fullfilename=$(basename "${file}")
filename="${fullfilename%.*}"
ffmpeg -i "$file" "/foo/bar/converted/$filename.mp4"
done
This basic script parses through a directory, takes the original filename, then removes the extension so a new extension can be added during output.
