Encoding AAC help
2016-12-29 03:51:48
Hi, so I'm using foobar to convert FLAC to Apple AAC with custom settings, I used qaac.exe that is here and I'm asking because I mainly convert Hi res vinyls and sometimes they are not normalized, I check in Audacity with Normalizing and adjusting the db to -0.1 and sometimes the waveform amplifies, meaning they were not normalized before. I want to amplify the audio without clipping, what is the correct way to do it? Should I first "norm=-0.1" the whole image with SoX batch converter? Or which settings should I use on foobar? I know qaac.exe uses SoX as resampler by default, but I don't know which settings are the correct ones for the ones I need, I'm not too good in these command things but I want to keep the best audio possible with all AAC has to offer. Oh and I'm asking to normalize the whole image beause I don't want some calm tracks to sound loud. These are the settings I already have on foobar--ignorelength -s --no-optimize -V 118 --rate 44100 -o %d - I was also thinking that I could use my SoX batch converter to convert them to AAC? is it possible? This is the .bat I have on my SoX folder, which I use it for WAV>FLAC or FLAC>FLAC@ECHO OFF SETLOCAL %SYSTEMDRIVE% ECHO %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% | FINDSTR AMD64>NUL && SET ARCH=AMD64 || SET ARCH=x86 IF %ARCH%==AMD64 SET DIRECTORY=%PROGRAMFILES(X86)% IF %ARCH%==x86 SET DIRECTORY=%PROGRAMFILES% CD "%DIRECTORY%" FOR /f %%x IN ( 'DIR /AD /B * ^| FINDSTR "^sox-[0-9].*$"' ) DO SET SOXDIR=%DIRECTORY%\%%x %~D0 CD %~DP0 @ECHO ON MKDIR converted FOR %%A IN (%*) DO sox -S -V4 --norm=-0.1 %% "converted/%%~nxA" rate -v 44100 stat -v @PAUSE Can someone guide me please? I don't want to alter lossless audio files for archiving. Thank you for your patience.