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I have a lot of WAV files that I do not wish to import into iTunes to convert. There are too many. I would like a way to convert these to Apple lossless in the terminal before importing to iTunes.
Richard Hoskins
Posted 2009-09-28T15:04:54.783
Reputation: 10 260
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You'll need to make a short bash for loop in a script (or xargs) but the command in question you care about is:
afconvert -d alac in.wav out.m4a
More info can be found by running man afconvert or afconvert -h.
Chealion
Posted 2009-09-28T15:04:54.783
Reputation: 22 932
afconverthas a pretty limited range of input formats, I'd suggest usingffmpegwhich has the builtin alac encoder too but supports tons of audio formats and it also tries to keep the metadata from the source as much as possible. e.g.ffmpeg -i input.whatever -vn -c:a alac -f ipod output.m4a– Meow – 2018-03-30T15:09:46.0701Simple one line loop example:
for file in *.wav; do afconvert -d alac "$file" "${file%wav}m4a"; done– flori – 2013-08-10T13:40:56.823