Batch audio converter for OSX?

shootingtigers · Post by **shootingtigers** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:07 am

Can anyone recommend a good batch audio converter for OSX?

I used to use NCH Switch but they have recently changed the demo restrictions so I can only convert 5 files at a time, I could buy it but I thought I'd check there isn't a free program or something better I could use?

leeski · Post by **leeski** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:16 am

maybe Audcity http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ch ... ation.html

shootingtigers · Post by **shootingtigers** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:45 am

Thanks for the reply but sadly it looks like it only does MP3, I'm trying to convert 24bit to 16bit WAV for use in an MPC...

supersuper · Post by **supersuper** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:41 pm

the guys who created the snapper software also made a batch convertor software

shootingtigers · Post by **shootingtigers** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:11 pm

Looks good but it's over ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬400 which is way more than I'm looking to spend...

giorgio · Post by **giorgio** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:16 pm

"switch"? not sure if it'll meet your needs but worth looking into

Soy Sos · Post by **Soy Sos** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:52 pm

Check SoundConverter
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/sharewa ... Converter/

SUPPORTED FORMATS

3210, 4xm, 8svx, aac, ac3, aif, aifc, aiff, al, ape, au, auto, avi, avr, bmp, caf, cdr, crc, cvs, dat, dsp, dv, emelody, ems, emy, fap, ffm, flac, gsm, h263, h264, hcom, imelody, imy, ircam, kmp, ksf, kws, la, lu, m4v, mat, mat4, mat5, maud, mid, midi, mot, mov, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, mpeg, mpegts, nist, nokia, nul, ogg, paf, pdb, prc, pvf, raw, redir, rtp, rtsp, rtttl, rtx, s16be, s16le, s8, samsung1, samsung2, sb, sckl, scm, sd2, sdp, seo, sf, sffd, shn, siemens, sl, smp, snd, sndt, sph, svx, sw, swf, tta, txw, u16be, u16le, u8, ub, ul, uw, vcd, vms, vob, voc, vorbis, vox, w64, wav, wve, xi

shootingtigers · Post by **shootingtigers** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:43 pm

That looks perfect, thanks very much!

donpachi · Post by **donpachi** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:59 pm

https://mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/ is nice, too - does playback of many file types in addition to batch export.

soup · Post by **soup** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:30 pm

I use sample manager which is not free but can do anything...

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/samplemanager/

But you should be able to batch convert 24bit to 16bit in itunes, just set your import settings to 16/44 wav and create a new version...

ziggomatic · Post by **ziggomatic** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:10 pm

Also not free but Adobe Audition has excellent batch convert capabilities for any audio format needed.

therk · Post by **therk** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:35 pm

If you don't mind a bit of command line jiggery pokery, then it's pretty much what SoX was made for.

http://sox.sourceforge.net

oisin · Post by **oisin** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:02 pm

http://sbooth.org/Max/

hasnt been updated in forever.. but still my go-to

madronalabs · Post by **madronalabs** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 2:28 pm

I have had very good luck using sox.

listentoaheartbeat · Post by **listentoaheartbeat** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:00 pm

oisin wrote:http://sbooth.org/Max/

hasnt been updated in forever.. but still my go-to

Same here, works really well!

racs · Post by **racs** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:18 pm

XLD's the way to go for lossless/uncompressed only: http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

but audacity is my go-to for MPC samples as it is also an excellent sample editor. it works with .wav natively but you need to download the LAME MP3 codec to work with mp3s

dkcg · Post by **dkcg** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:35 pm

supersuper wrote:the guys who created the snapper software also made a batch convertor software

Snapper is awesome. I imagine Barbabatch is great too.

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/BarbaBatch/

Tomazzzi · Post by **Tomazzzi** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:21 am

http://sbooth.org/Max/

+1 for max !

timmcg · Post by **timmcg** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:50 am

This was one of the many reasons I switched to Reaper. What a great DAW!!!

Timothy

aldaraia · Post by **aldaraia** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:25 pm

XLD is definitely the way to go for uncompressed. Until I started using the SRC built into Izotope RX it was what I used to convert everything to FLAC, MP3, from WAV to AIF and back.

unmode · Post by **unmode** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:06 am

If your comfortable with the command line then SoX will do all this kind of stuff with ease.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/

It's probably the highest quality resampling algorithm on the market. Many DAWs incorporate it.

wcheeese · Post by **wcheeese** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:45 am

+1 for XLD, never hurts when such a great tool is free either.

hzman · Post by **hzman** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:50 pm

I think Audiofinder can do some batch processing too. And sound forge for Mac. Barbabatch is very robust, if you are trying to convert through folders, and maintain folder structures it is great. Sox is good too but pretty low level.

jestern77 · Post by **jestern77** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:45 am

I use Audition that lets you do filtering and stuff..

lodsb · Post by **lodsb** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:35 pm

the best converter is REAPER

you can simply run batch programs (file->batch). does it for sample rate conversion and the likes but you can also run the files through dsp chains

imho, it kills the other stuff and to have that integrated in a decent daw where you can also do proper file editing... big plus.

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Batch audio converter for OSX?

Batch audio converter for OSX?