Automation Task Request - Audio file conversion

[sepulchra]

I don't know if it is possible but I would love an automation task that would allow for audio file type conversions -- where the file type, bit depth, and sample rate could be changed. I currently have a workflow built around ffmpeg that I use but would be nice to be able to achieve similar results without any dependencies. 

 

Thanks!

[vitor]

A dependency would always be necessary because macOS does not ship with a tool to do this. There is afconvert but it doesn’t seem to cover two of your three requests. Plus, having all that configuration could get confusing fast (since it wouldn’t be limited to that). A workflow with ffmpeg seems definitely the way to go with this.

[sepulchra]

that's helpful. I thought there might be a way to leverage the tools that quicktime/apple music uses for conversion but i see now they have removed lots of the detailed export options.

 

 

[vitor]

Apple has APIs which may be able to do it. But you’d need to write a tool to use those so you still end up with a dependency anyway. And one which won’t have benefited from the decades of FFmpeg development.