gmp Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 For years I've used Rapid Media Converter for converting audio and some video files. The newer version has too much malware, so I was wondering what converter you use? I prefer doing conversion in a separate program not CbB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Acon Acoustica is a really overall nice program for editing and also batch audio conversion. i have DaVinci for video and use that to create different formats on video files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reginaldStjohn Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Goldwave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 I have used this for ages. It is free. Quick Media converter. It uses FFMPEG codec which is also free. It does not do everything, but it does some odd ones no one else does. It also has batch conversions that could be a batch with video conversions and mixed with some audio in the same batch. https://www.cocoonsoftware.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmp Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 Max I'm looking for something simple and fast like to turn a wav file into an mp3. Video file into a wav or mp3. How easy is this? Anything time consuming I'll just use CbB instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 For wave to mp3 I have always liked RazorLame. The actual encoder is Lame. Lame has been around for years (1998). Lame has had many versions through the years. It is still considered the best mp3 encoder. This pair once setup is super fast, easy to use and free. This only makes mp3s. It doesn’t do other stuff. Quick media converter does a ton of stuff. It even has codecs for some phone formats. I use both. If it’s just audio I usually tend to use RazorLame. https://lame.sourceforge.io/ https://www.videohelp.com/software/RazorLame The video help site has a ton of great stuff. You might want to look around a little. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmp Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 Thanks for the links. In Sonar and CbB I have the External Encoder set up to use 3 actual lame DLLs in my shared utility's folder. I'll try both Razor and Quick Media converter. Occasionally there's some apple audio file that CbB won't let me drag into it, so I need a converter to convert it to a wav or mp3. I think it may be a m4a file and sometimes files like that end up sounding 2x faster than they're supposed to, so those I have to convert also. Will Razor convert other files or only wav files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 No but Quick media converter will do several phone formats, AAC and a ton of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andres Medina Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 (edited) I found this free audio converter, and I think is great: simple and effective. I am already using it to convert wav to mp3 and wav to M4A. Fantastic. https://www.freemake.com/free_audio_converter/ Edited September 9 by Andres Medina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Ditto to Gold Wave. Rock solid conversion of just about anything. I bought a license years ago cheap and it's lifetime updates. But it works perfectly fine with only a nag screen too. It has a "Batch" conversion feature so you can do whole albums in one move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmp Posted Wednesday at 01:01 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 01:01 PM Hey Max, I opened Quick media converter and couldn't easily figure out how to convert a wav to mp3 or a m4a to anything. Sometimes a client may send me a video file, likely from their phone, with them singing and all I want is the audio. All of these conversions would be fine at medium quality. Quick media converter may be overkill for me. Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted Wednesday at 03:15 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 03:15 PM Gold wave is dead simple to use. Choose the file or multiple files. Choose the format which you want from this list which has what seems includes every possible known audio and video format. Choose run. I find many uses for this Wave editor but batch conversion is my main use of the software. It's solid and straight forward to learn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andres Medina Posted Thursday at 01:27 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:27 PM This is Freemake Audio Converter interface - worth trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmp Posted Thursday at 04:47 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 04:47 PM freemake audio converter is exactly what I'm looking for easy no nonsense, unfortunately it has a limit of 3 min. Any song longer than that they charge $39. I'd prefer a free one, since that's what I had. Although I may pay the $19 for Goldwave unless I find something free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted Thursday at 06:33 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:33 PM (edited) No limit on file length. I hope I have these in order. I know it’s a bad UI, but once you learn it, it is very easy to operate. + to add files music note for audio Circle thing to convert folder icon to locate the file Hope this helps (This is like Razor Lame-which is dependent on Lame. Quick media converter is only a GUI for ffmpeg which must be installed for it to operate) I think many programs use ffmpeg for the actual conversion) Edited Thursday at 06:39 PM by Max Arwood More info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted Thursday at 09:39 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:39 PM 4 hours ago, gmp said: freemake audio converter is exactly what I'm looking for easy no nonsense, unfortunately it has a limit of 3 min. Any song longer than that they charge $39. I'd prefer a free one, since that's what I had. Although I may pay the $19 for Goldwave unless I find something free Just pony up the $US19 for Goldwave (or even $US59 for the lifetime). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andres Medina Posted Thursday at 11:08 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:08 PM 6 hours ago, gmp said: freemake audio converter is exactly what I'm looking for easy no nonsense, unfortunately it has a limit of 3 min. Any song longer than that they charge $39. I'd prefer a free one, since that's what I had. Although I may pay the $19 for Goldwave unless I find something free mmm... ugh! You are right. I didn't realize that. A shame. Fantastic program anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettelus Posted Thursday at 11:26 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:26 PM Are you using the outputs is recordings or for reference? VLC Media Player will also do batch conversions, but I believe the mp3 offload is locked to 128kbps. If pulling from online, the 4K Video Downloader has more options, but the free version is limited to 30 downloads per day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted Friday at 10:10 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:10 AM I guess I should have done this. Sorry about all the graphics.I just looked this program supports 60 different video formats. Dozens of iphone,iPod and other phone formats. Xbox, Playstation, Wii DVD, H264. HTML5, Youtube , Windows media player. Just hover the icon for general info. Click and the selections for that group appear. Don't buy it, I think the guy quit working on it. Free, MANY types or conversions, Unlimited length, Free Internet Downloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmp Posted Friday at 01:33 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 01:33 PM Max thanks for the great detail, bypassing all the confusing icons. When I installed it it was not able to load the FFMPEG. I think it said something about security. I've never had to tell Win security to do something like this. Maybe you remember what you did The program still does launch and I tried all your steps, but when I click target folder, nothing happened. My suspicion is it has something to do with the FFMPEG not loading. what do you think I should do? I will say this is exactly what I wanted. Once you know the steps it's very quick and easy Thanks a million - so nice connecting with you after all these years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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