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Batch Audio Conversion

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  1. Ch1pper

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    Just wondering if anyone here knows of any good batch audio converters? I've got a bunch of quick Wav files waiting to be converted to WMA format, and far as I know there's no quick'n'easy batch option in Audacity. Just wondering what-all you folks have had success with? Thanks in advance for the help. :)
     
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    Well, if he's willing to use the command-line, he could cut out the middleman and use the WMA CLI encoder (WMcmd.vbs).
     
  5. Overlord

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    A better question is why the fuck he's coding to WMA when he could be encoding to OGG or MP3 and as such have a music file that works in a lot more places. Go on, answer =P
     
  6. SegaLoco

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    Code (Text):
    1. #!/bin/sh
    2. for wav in "$@"; do
    3.     wma="${wav%.wav}.wma"
    4.     ffmpeg -I "$wav" "$wma"
    5. done
    or MS Batch

    Code (Text):
    1. @echo off
    2. for %%X in (*.wav) do ffmpeg -I %%X %%X.wma
    Note, you need ffmpeg for this. I'm not 100% sure on the bach file, I don't do windows, but it seems about right, that one won't strip off the .wav from the file before converting though...I think...

    Oh, and make sure the .wav files are the only files in the directory, dunno if the $@ just opens all files or what...

    Edit: ..... make sure that is a lowercase I on the -I part, damn filter <_<
     
  7. nineko

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    Nero usually comes with an audio converter as well.

    But I have to quote Overlord: why WMA?
     
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    WMA is one of the things that should completely disappear...
     
  9. Ch1pper

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    While I wouldn't mind seeing WMA and Apple MP4 die in a fire, who said it was music related?
    Y'all recall those "Beta/E3" Knuckles voice clips speculated on a little while back? I got curious to see how they fit in the final. :specialed:
     
  10. Overlord

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    Oh, OK. That's fair enough. =P
     
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    Batch converts lots of formats to lots of formats.
    Actually it does something to time indicies in some video formats which is why two of my youtube uploads screwed up. But for audio and other things its great.
     
  13. SegaLoco

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    Sorry.. but did you just completely ignore everything I said. Just grab ffmpeg and that batch and or shell script and run it in the directory with the .wav files. No need to grab some shitty program to do that for you.
     
  14. Ch1pper

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    Sorry, that all looks like gibberish to me...

    Anyway, I got the job done. This thread can be trashed. Thanks for the help all. Much appreciated.