BladeRunner Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I loaded all my music CDs onto my system hard drive using iTunes and the iTunes CODEC which stored them as MPEG-4 audio files. That's fine for playback using my computer audio system. However, I would like to make a duplicate music library where the files are stored as high quality MP3 files. That would allow me to burn MP3 CDs for play on my BOSE sound system. I know I could play the original CD but the MP3 format packs so many more tracks on the CD that I want to give that a try. The problem is, I can't locate a reasonable application that does the conversion. Free is nice, but commercial is OK also. I would appreciate any suggestions and/or pointers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 You can actually do that through iTunes if you want to. Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing and select the codec that you want to use and the bitrate. Say Ok, close out and go back to your library. Highlight the files you want to convert, right click and choose "Convert Selection to <Codec>" ~Adrian Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-335976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 You can actually do that through iTunes if you want to. Wow, I didn't know you could get it to convert to MP3! I've always used it to change MP3s to AAC, but I didn't know it could go the other way too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-335979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 or toast Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-335990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeRunner Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 You can actually do that through iTunes if you want to. Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing and select the codec that you want to use and the bitrate. Say Ok, close out and go back to your library. Highlight the files you want to convert, right click and choose "Convert Selection to <Codec>" ~Adrian Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to use iTunes but must have done something wrong. It did the conversion, but then I had duplicate copies of the track in the iTunes library - one each of MPEG-4 and MP3. What I really wanted was something like an export to a different directory with a format conversion on the way. Someone also suggested Toast. I have Toast but never thought it could do the conversion. I will check into that. Edit:I just checked the Toast 8 user guide and it states that Toast does not create MP3 - for MP3 use iTunes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-336028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 If you have Tiger, just open Finder, navigate to your Music directory, select Command-F to bring up the find Dialogue Under the Kind option, choose Others and type "MP3 Audio File" (it should auto complete for you) Make sure you choose the 'Folder "Music"' option up top. When it is done finding everything (5 seconds for me on a 141 GB Music Library... gotta love spotlight), select all (Command-A) and drag to a new folder. done resorting everything. If you don't have Tiger, I could always write you up a Grep script for you, as it is certain to be a lot faster than waiting on Finder's default "Find" functionality from Panther. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-336037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeRunner Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 If you have Tiger, just open Finder, navigate to your Music directory, select Command-F to bring up the find DialogueUnder the Kind option, choose Others and type "MP3 Audio File" (it should auto complete for you) Make sure you choose the 'Folder "Music"' option up top. When it is done finding everything (5 seconds for me on a 141 GB Music Library... gotta love spotlight), select all (Command-A) and drag to a new folder. done resorting everything. If you don't have Tiger, I could always write you up a Grep script for you, as it is certain to be a lot faster than waiting on Finder's default "Find" functionality from Panther. Adrian, many thanks for the help. I am running Tiger - 10.4.9. Today I learned some extra things about both iTunes and Finder. I have things working for me now. My library is small compared to yours - only 8GB. I have created a smart play list that looks for files added today. Then, selected the tracks I want on a single CD and ran convert to MP3 -> burn the play list to CD -> delete files in play list and start again. I was very pleased with the result as iTunes created the tracks so that the track name displays on my music system. That did not happen with the other methods I had tried. Now it's just a matter of creating the mixes I want. Again, thanks for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-336081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 No problem. ~Adrian Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-336431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_S Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I am trying to convert all my MP3's to AAC using toast. I know iTunes can do it but it is slow, toast seems faster. However, there is a 99 track limit when converting. Is there a way around this limit? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46933-is-there-an-app-to-covert-audio-formats/#findComment-932945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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