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post #16 of 23
3/31/09 at 12:35am
I thought dbPowerAmp used Nero, or is that just for AAC?
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post #17 of 23
3/31/09 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by craiglester View Post
Ahh that's interesting. Anyone actually tried ffmpeg's stab at ALAC encoding? Is it any better than dBpoweramp's windows implementation? Is it multi core aware?
I Do like that dBpoweramp's uses all 4 cores at once, Itunes is hopelessly single threaded, but seems to put the start/stop times in more accurately than dBpoweramp..
I have not tried it myself, but you find some test results in here:
FFmpeg supports ALAC encoder now... - Doom9's Forum

Seems to have both faster encoding and tighter encoding than iTunes.
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post #18 of 23
3/31/09 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by scompton View Post
I thought dbPowerAmp used Nero, or is that just for AAC?
As far as I've ever understood it, dBpoweramp's Apple Lossless codec is customized and reverse engineered, and not an Ahead/Nero product.
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post #19 of 23
3/31/09 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by craiglester View Post
Itunes is hopelessly single threaded, but seems to put the start/stop times in more accurately than dBpoweramp..
As I stated earlier, I use Max to transcode FLAC to Apple Lossless. However, I don't consider the job complete until I again transcode to Apple Lossless with iTunes. I would do the same if using dBpoweramp on my Windows computers.
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post #20 of 23
3/31/09 at 9:22pm
I've got around Itunes refusal to read FLAC by converting to WMA lossless in dBpoweramp, then dropping those into Itunes.. Takes a while, but it keeps all my tags and keeps it lossless. Not too quick though.
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post #21 of 23
2/7/10 at 4:29pm

Didn't want to start new thread .ape and flac to alac w/MAX

I just downloaded MAX 0.91 and see no ALAC format... is this the incorrect version, any advice?? THANKS!
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post #22 of 23
2/7/10 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by agbassano View Post
I just downloaded MAX 0.91 and see no ALAC format... is this the incorrect version, any advice?? THANKS!
"Apple MPEG-4 Audio" then "Apple Lossless"
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post #23 of 23
10/30/10 at 11:48am

using ffmpeg for flac to alac goes like this

 

 

 

for a single file

 

 

ffmpeg -i  input file.flac -acodec alac output file.m4a

 

 

alac to flac   

 

 

 

ffmpeg -i  input file.m4a output file.flac

 

 

 

 

batch convert from flac to alac   In terminal  cd to the folder where your files are then    enter

 

 

for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i   "$f" -acodec alac  "${f%.flac}.m4a"; done

 

 

 

batch convert from alac to flac      In terminal  cd to the folder where your files are then    enter

 

for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%.m4a}.flac"; done

 


Edited by shantiq - 10/30/10 at 11:51am
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