[scompton]

I thought dbPowerAmp used Nero, or is that just for AAC?

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by craiglester /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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.

 

[Jaska]

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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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.

 

[Jaska]

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Originally Posted by craiglester /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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.

 

[craiglester]

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.

 

[agbassano]

I just downloaded MAX 0.91 and see no ALAC format... is this the incorrect version, any advice?? THANKS!

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by agbassano /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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"

 

[shantiq]

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