Re: [ecasound] AAC batch conversion with Ecasound?

[Avuton O. <av...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Xavier G<j...@mi...> wrote:
> Hi, we have ecasound installed on our file server with 1 T of mp3 files.
> We need to convert all our mp3 files (mostely 100 Mo mp3 files) in AAC
> 96kbps.
>
> Is there a way to do it in batch with ecasound?
>
> If not does anybody have a alternate solution?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>

As long as you realize that changing from one lossy format to another
will create generation loss[1] and possible significant degradation of
sound, you're probably best off making a line to decode with mpg123
and piping the output to faac, ecasound can probably do it with some
overhead with some -i:<in> -o:<out>  arguments. You should not do this
if you're going to either redistribute or archive these AAC files.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcode
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