FLAC can compress audio to about 50~60% without any quality loss. It's like cutting out the middle man.Īnd then you will know why and how to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless:įLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), as its name suggested, is a free lossless audio codec. This is what every media player or shitty "convert x to y" adware uses at its core (VLC, mplayerx, XLD, Max, all of them). The proper command to convert an audio file to an m4a is then ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:a alac "$.m4a" doneįUN FACT: ffmpeg will happily transcode video too (just also specify the video codec) ffmpeg -i in.avi -c:v h264 -c:a aac out.mkv Now we can type out our shell script using "$f" as our input. The * essentially says to match anything before the period (the different song names). Where is the file extension that you want (like flac). To build the set of filenames in one directory, we say: f in path/to/folder/*. For shell commands this is usually bash: for The trick is to glue multiple invocations of ffmpeg together with some scripting language. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. If you'd like to view their content together, click here. This fundamental difference in audience is why we support two communities, r/Apple and r/AppleHelp. Apple SubredditsĬontent which benefits the community (news, rumors, and discussions) is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, etc.). Not sure what to buy?Īsk in our Daily Advice Thread or in our dedicated sister sub /r/AppleWhatShouldIBuy! See also the iPhone Upgrade Wiki for more information. Comments that are spreading COVID vaccine misinformation/claims are not allowed.Ĭheck here to see if any Apple services are down.These belong in the beta subreddits listed below. The proper place for advice is /r/AppleWhatShouldIBuy. No posts or comments relating to buying, selling, trading, giveaways or asking for advice about any of those topics.No content related to piracy or illegal activities.Before posting, read the detailed rules here. Self-promotion is allowed on Sundays only, strictly reserved for app developers and must be in the form of a self-post. We may approve your post if it is a high-level issue that can't be found through searches, or if it affects a large amount of people. No support questions outside of the Daily Advice Thread.No posts that aren’t directly related to Apple or the Apple eco-system.No rude, offensive, or hateful comments.No editorialized link titles (use the original source's title if applicable).Posts must foster reasonable discussion.No memes, direct images or contextless image/video posts.If you have a tech or buying/selling-related question, please check out our Daily Advice Thread or r/AppleHelp! CommunityĪ more in-depth version of the rules can be found here Welcome to r/Apple, the unofficial community for Apple news, rumors, and discussions.
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