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

SONY sound forge with batch processing add in.

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"No Spam" wrote in message
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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

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

Blade encoder? Free.

Bob

"No Spam" wrote in message
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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

"No Spam"

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
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

WillStG wrote:
"No Spam"


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/


Why couldn't it do a file conversion in Classic on OSX? There's no IO
involved.

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.

"Sugarite"
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.

Well the original poster did not specify his operating system, but if you
have a *better* _Mac_ freeware suggestion let's hear it.

He did say he was working with low bit rate files. Yes, if he needs to
convert to MP3's this isn't the right program for him. However if he is
dealing with low bit rate soundfiles for the Internet/webpages/games (and I
have worked with an awful of a lot of those),

1. The program is free and it works.

2. It batch converts well.

2. You can create playlists with files of different sample rates and bit
rates, which I have found useful when just dumping assorted files off analog.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits