[OreoCookie]

My girlfriend just bought an MP3 CD player and I want to give her some songs. I have reencoded mine as .m4a (aac), though, and I'd like to know if there is a command line conversion utiliity (or batch conversion utility) available for OS X.

Thanks in advance.

[pat++]

ffmpeg can probably do this.

[chabig]

Why limit yourself to the command line? Just do it with iTunes.

1) Make sure the MP3 encoder is selected in the Importing Preferences
2) Select the songs your want converted
3) Choose Convert to MP3 from the Advanced menu

Chris

[wataru]

The real answer is: don't do it at all. Re-rip from CD.

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by wataru:
The real answer is: don't do it at all. Re-rip from CD.

My CDs are in Germany, I'm in Japan, so this is unfortunately not an option.

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by chabig:
Why limit yourself to the command line? Just do it with iTunes.

1) Make sure the MP3 encoder is selected in the Importing Preferences
2) Select the songs your want converted
3) Choose Convert to MP3 from the Advanced menu

Chris

Jup, I know about that option, but unfortunately, it adds another title to my library, as far as I know. Sorting thousands of songs twice is a bit too much …_

I wish iTunes would convert songs on the fly if "MP3 CD" is selected. My girlfriend has bought an MP3 CD player, so it doesn't understand AAC. So instead of disabling AAC songs, iTunes should recode them as .mp3, at least as an option …_

[Moonray]

Originally posted by chabig:
Why limit yourself to the command line? Just do it with iTunes.

1) Make sure the MP3 encoder is selected in the Importing Preferences
2) Select the songs your want converted
3) Choose Convert to MP3 from the Advanced menu

Chris

It's not limiting but sometimes way easier and quicker if you don't have to open an app and click, select, and drag around, wait for windows to pop-up and close again but can achive the same by simply typing a line in the terminal.

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[OreoCookie]

Bingo.

I use ImageMagick to convert my images that I post on my website. I change one parameter in the script and things are reconverted according to my wishes.

I want the same for sounds and video. Unfortunately, I cannot compile faad 2.0, the library for aac support.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Bingo.

I use ImageMagick to convert my images that I post on my website. I change one parameter in the script and things are reconverted according to my wishes.

I want the same for sounds and video. Unfortunately, I cannot compile faad 2.0, the library for aac support.

Have you checked out faac? http://faac.sourceforge.net/

I saw that both faac and faad2 are on that website, but I didn't quite catch the difference between the two. Maybe faac doesn't do what you need...

edit: Ah... faac encodes and faad decodes.

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Have you checked out faac? http://faac.sourceforge.net/

I saw that both faac and faad2 are on that website, but I didn't quite catch the difference between the two. Maybe faac doesn't do what you need...

edit: Ah... faac encodes and faad decodes.

Well, I downloaded the faad 2.0 source code and I cannot compile it.

I'll try faac ...

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Well, I downloaded the faad 2.0 source code and I cannot compile it.

I'll try faac ...

Yeah, I'd guess that you would need faac to encode the mp3s to AAC. I wonder if fink or darwinports has some binaries worked out for faad or faac... Where did you get the hint to try faad in the first place? They might have more info...?

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Yeah, I'd guess that you would need faac to encode the mp3s to AAC. I wonder if fink or darwinports has some binaries worked out for faad or faac... Where did you get the hint to try faad in the first place? They might have more info...?

It's not included in fink and thus I have tried building it from the sources directly.

[chabig]

I wish iTunes would convert songs on the fly if "MP3 CD" is selected.

That would be nice, but until it does, just have iTunes do the conversion. Burn the CD. Then delete the resulting MP3s so you won't have "thousands of songs to sort twice."

Chris

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by chabig:
That would be nice, but until it does, just have iTunes do the conversion. Burn the CD. Then delete the resulting MP3s so you won't have "thousands of songs to sort twice."

Chris

Well, how about iTunes converting them automatically before burning.

[chabig]

Well, how about iTunes converting them automatically before burning.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

Chris

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by chabig:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

Chris

Already done, but thanx.

[chabig]

I'm glad you sent it in. It is a good idea.

Chris

[OreoCookie]

Did anybody compile faac successfully?

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Did anybody compile faac successfully?

I just did some googling and found some binaries of faad for Mac OS X: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html

I didn't have much success compiling faac on my Panther box unfortunately, so hopefully that faad binary will be of some help.

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
I just did some googling and found some binaries of faad for Mac OS X: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html

I didn't have much success compiling faac on my Panther box unfortunately, so hopefully that faad binary will be of some help.

Perfect!

I googled around without success, so I think this is really helpful. I'll post if I am successful ... gotta sleep now.

[OreoCookie]

I installed both from Darwin ports.

I'll try them later tomorrow, I think.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
I installed both from Darwin ports.

I'll try them later tomorrow, I think.

I never did get around to looking in Darwin ports, but sure enough faac 1.23 is in there. So with that faad binary from rarwares.org and the faac port from darwin ports you should be good to go, I hope it's what you need.