Batch Converter Recommendendations

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I am looking for some recommendations for audio batch converters. I am
primarily translating large batches of audio file into low bitrate formats.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

Mark Engleman

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No Spam wrote:
> I am looking for some recommendations for audio batch converters. I am
> primarily translating large batches of audio file into low bitrate formats.
> Does anyone have any recommendations?

Awave Audio (less than $50) <http://www.fmjsoft.com/aaframe.html>

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> "No Spam" no_spam@yahoo.com

>I am looking for some recommendations for audio batch converters. I am
>primarily translating large batches of audio file into low bitrate formats.
>Does anyone have any recommendations?

Platform/Operating System/format?

On a Mac greater than a 68020 using a system greater than 7.0 and less than
OSX, SoundApp V2.7.2 is a very nice Freeware program by Norman Franke that
will drag and drop batch convert.

You can even set up playlists of files at different bit rates and depths
without converting them first which is occasionally convenient. But if you
want a certain amount of silence between files on a playlist you have to make
up an audio file of silence for the length you wish and insert it between
files.

It's on a lot of sites, here's the homepage and it explains what kind of
files it handles.

http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/

On the other hand, Wave's "WaveConvert" utility program ain't free but
it sounds very very good, it's Windows and Mac and has a lot of offline
processing options like ultramiximizer, eq, etc..

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
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> >>I am looking for some recommendations for audio batch converters. I am
> >>primarily translating large batches of audio file into low bitrate
formats.
> >>Does anyone have any recommendations?
> >
> >
> > Platform/Operating System/format?
> >
> > On a Mac greater than a 68020 using a system greater than 7.0 and
less than
> > OSX, SoundApp V2.7.2 is a very nice Freeware program by Norman Franke
that
> > will drag and drop batch convert.
>
> Why couldn't it do a file conversion in Classic on OSX? There's no IO
> involved.

SoundApp, while outstanding in its day, is now archaic. For example, it
can't even do MP3 encoding. Last updated almost four YEARS ago. It's an
absurd recommendation.

On the PC side, I highly recommend dBpowerAMP Music Converter. Stupid name,
great freeware. All sorts of codecs ready to use, from MP3 to FLAC.
Highlight a bunch of files in a folder, right-click, convert to..., choose
codec, settings, output folder, off she goes. Very Mac-like! Even SoundApp
was never this user-friendly.