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Allow choice of M4A extension for tracks converted to AAC format

My portable player plays files with an M4A extension, but not an MP4 extension.  Adobe Audition allows the user to choose among these extensions when converting to AAC using the FAAC plug-in, but fb2k only converts to MP4 today.  fb2k has many other advantages over Audition for ripping, such as freedb tagging, so I use fb2k.  It would be a time saver for me with ripping a lot of CDs and having to rename files (and make the process less error-prone) if fb2k provided an option for the AAC file extension.

Allow choice of M4A extension for tracks converted to AAC format

Reply #1 –
The version I use (0.9.2) allows you to spec the extension if you use a custom encoder setup -

Allow choice of M4A extension for tracks converted to AAC format

Reply #2 –
Or you can just rename all mp4 files into m4a files using the command line in windows.

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ren *.mp4 *.m4a


This of course only renames files in the current directory and not in subfolders. If you wish to apply to subfolders' files as well do this:

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for /r %f IN (*.mp4) DO @ren %f %~nf.m4a

EDIT: Sorry, only used echo when testing. Fixed!

PRESTO!

Allow choice of M4A extension for tracks converted to AAC format

Reply #3 –
Is there a missing move or ren there?

-brendan

Allow choice of M4A extension for tracks converted to AAC format

Reply #4 –
Thanks to all.  I used Cosmo's tip, and it worked great!

I was wondering what are the correct command line arguments for foobar's use of the Nero encoder, but I found a simple solution.  When I add a custom encoder preset, I found that if I first select an existing preset that is close (MP4 Nero in this case), then the custom preset is filled in to match the existing preset.  Thus, I only needed to change the extension on the custom preset to get what I wanted.

By the way, I tested on v0.9.3 beta 4