tyrion Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Not sure if this is the right place for this topic. Now that I have the Oppo as my source I want to know if there is a fast and painless way to convert my ALAC files (close to 800GB) to FLAC. Any help will be appreciated. I believe it can handle .wav as well so that may be the easier route as I think I can do that through iTunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Max is the tool you want. It a powerful program, but more than a bit buggy and updated erratically. There is a known bug in the preferences window when you select the Formats tab. More than half the time, it will refuse to show the relevant options and just as likely crash. Fortunately, the settings are persistent, so you only need to change them once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recstar24 Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Is there a windows program equivalent out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 I'd use xld dbpoweramp is what you'd use on winders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Yes. Foobar2000 will do everything Max will, and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Does the Oppo show tags or only file names? If the former stay way from WAV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Thanks all. I was lazy and after posting decided to use google and downloaded XLD and hopefully, I used it correctly and will have everything converted by morning. Thanks again for the assist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Yes. Foobar2000 will do everything Max will, and more. That is what I use to do the job on Win 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Is there a windows program equivalent out there? Like Dan said dBPoweramp. The program owns, and is only limited by your cpu speed and number of cores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 dbpoweramp is what you'd use on winders Like Dan said dBPoweramp. The program owns, and is only limited by your cpu speed and number of cores. Word(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 another vote for dbpoweramp. years ago i plunked down a small amount of cash for the full version. definitely money well spent, the batch converter and right click menu converter have gotten immense use. superb cd ripper as well, for the record. much more functional and easier to use then EAC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 I gave it a try last night, left it alone for a while, returned and there was an error. I will give it another try tonight. I'm guessing operator error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 there may have been a bad file somewhere, too. I need to see if there is a setting that will skip over the bad file and continue the process. Otherwise, this will be a big pita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 i have dbpoweramp set to verify the conversion after applying the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 *chuckle* Max hasn't been updated since 2009, but from the bottom of the sbooth main page says "Copyright © 2006 - 20011 Stephen F. Booth. Design by Andreas Viklund." Clearly, he's more far in the future than any of us. I have never used DBPowerAmp, but I have to wonder, does it handle RePlayGain as well as Foobar? One of FB2K's real strengths is RPG processing. When I used to use it to convert lossless to lossy, I'd RPG the the audio first. That meant I'd never get any nasty volume surprises in the iPod, and I didn't have to contend with Apple's useless auto volume function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 shrug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieurguzel Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Another vote for XLD here. I used to be a longtime Max user but eventually shipped since XLD is much better supported. Interface has gotten substantially better of the years and is quite good at mass tagging albums now. That being said, the absolute best tagging program for Windows (if that's your thing) is called Tag'n'Rename! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 If your on Windows, you might as well have Foobar2000 even if just for playback. No harm in trying it out, because it is free and has many tutorials online if you need. It does a great job doing batch conversions of pretty much any format for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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