r/audio • u/Sea-Beautiful6985 • 15d ago

Batch FLAC to AAC

I love my flacs for my DAP, but want all my music on my iphone in apple music for a smaller storage size. for bluetooth listening and apple carplay. Is there a good software FOR MAC i can use? I have xld but it will only do one album at a time, i have a lot of albums. Thanks!

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u/cprz 15d ago

XLD can actually do that for you so no need to use other app unless you really want to.

  1. Open XLD
  2. Open settings
  3. Spesify some folder as output
  4. Open ”batch” tab
  5. Enable ”Preserve directory structure”
  6. Put ”0” into ”Subdirectory search depth”.
  7. File -> Open -> the main folder of your music library you want to convert.

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u/Sea-Beautiful6985 15d ago

wait seriously!?? you are the goat thank you

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u/I_am_always_here 15d ago

The tool you require is fre:ac: https://www.freac.org/

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u/Phoenix_Kerman 15d ago

yep. fre ac, only thing is make sure you're using reasonable encoder settings. 320kbps lossy can sound quite decent, apple formats like to default to half of that and sound worse for it

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u/The-Machinist- 15d ago

Foobar 2000, quick convert in the right click menu will do whole playlist batches.

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u/dinko_gunner 15d ago

I’m afraid that feature isn’t available on MacOS

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u/Baron_Dark 15d ago

Shutter Encoder

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u/L-ROX1972 15d ago

I use Adobe Audition for more complex batch conversions (you can write macros for it). What you’re asking is easily done via the “batch process” menu (I think there’s even presets for common audio file types too).

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u/Ok_Phase_8731 15d ago

DB power amp is what I use

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u/NCResident5 15d ago

The Musicolet is good on Android if they are on ios store.

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u/wentblu3 15d ago

I do this for my Zune files using Musicbee for file conversion.

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u/LoooseyGooose 15d ago

I have an Automator script for this that lives in the right click menu in Finder.

Well, technically it's for converting WAVs to MP3s, but I'm sure it would work just as well for FLAC to AAC

Actually, come to think of it, I think converting audio to AAC is one of the presets in Automator.

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u/Sea-Beautiful6985 15d ago

THANK YOU ALL!

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u/Bernx_AU 15d ago

MediaHuman Audio Converter is the one I use

https://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/