Re:Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
by daneel_w on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:07PM
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Yes, iTunes also uses the same Core Audio framework. In fact, even iTunes on Windows uses the same code base through the Quicktime-for-Windows libraries it runs off of.
I prefer to encode with afconvert on the command line because it gives me a few more options for tweaking things, that I don't have access to in iTunes (or "Music" as it's called these days). Additionally, I use a simple shell script that handles all of it when for example ripping a whole CD.
Re:Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
by seec on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:26PM
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XLD is great.
The best thing about it is the heavy parallelization if you have many cores to throw at the problem.
You can convert mountains of albums very fast.
Love those type of OG Mac indie software.
So if your needs are just "one audio file in, one audio file out, and let me tell you exactly what it should look like", then afconvert is probably what you want.