7 Responses for "Audio File Conversion"

1. Kim

   March 18th, 2005 at 10:39 am

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   Itunes does this. Set the format in the CD import preference pane and then right click on the song you want to convert and choose “Convert Selection to (name of the format you chose)”

2. Jeremy Flint

   March 18th, 2005 at 10:48 am

   2

   This will work with just regular audio file as well, or do they have to be on a CD?

3. JC

   March 18th, 2005 at 10:59 am

   3

   regular audio file. Just import it into itunes and then follow the same directions kim gave above

4. Brian Arnold

   March 18th, 2005 at 12:56 pm

   4

   You could check out Audacity. It’s pretty slick, and works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

   http://audacity.sourceforge.net

5. Nathan Nutter

   March 18th, 2005 at 2:21 pm

   5

   Go with iTunes, Audacity would be overkill. iTunes will convert it to whatever you set in the import properties like Kim said.

   So if you want it in AAC, iTunes will give you the convert option as long as the file is not already AAC. Just make the playlist (smart playlist using kind) and then select all and convert.

6. Mason

   March 18th, 2005 at 2:30 pm

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   iTunes seems to the simplist on the Mac, but one could always use the CLI.

   for i in *.wav; do lame $i `basename “$i” .wav`.mp3; done

7. sweetalk

   November 3rd, 2005 at 3:13 am

   7

   can you change the file of cd’s already ripped into itunes in mpeg4 or whatever default?
   (ultimate destination is audacity)
   or will i have to re rip the cd’s in aiff or mp3?

   sweetalk