Recommendations for converting WAV to MP3?

[Tabitha McNerney]

Hi Ryan,

Indeed a good idea. Though, is there a way to batch? I suppose one could
write an Apple Script to drive iTunes. It would be nice to have a purely
command-line option besides iTunes, if that's possible.

Thanks,

T.M.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> On Jun 28, 2008, at 03:33, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
>  I noticed among MacPorts there is a collection of audio-related tools --
>> many of them in fact. Can someone recommend a command-line tool to convert
>> (one or batch) WAV files to MP3 format? Something simple would be great. I
>> just have no idea where to start (audio is not my forte).
>>
>
> Honestly, I'd recommend Apple's iTunes. Drag all your WAV files into
> iTunes. Then go to iTunes - Preferences - Advanced - Importing and set your
> encoding settings the way you want them (MP3 or AAC (a.k.a. M4A), bitrate,
> mono/stereo, etc.). Then select all your imported WAV files in the library
> and choose "Convert Selection to MP3" (or "to AAC") from the Advanced menu.
> Then you can delete the WAV files from iTunes.
>
>
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