[matthewpartrick]

Doesn't this seem pointless?  Am I putting lipstick on a pig?

I feel like converting AAC to FLAC in particular would be like making lemonade with rotten lemons.

Amiright?

Thanks in advance.

[zoom25]

AAC to FLAC makes no sense. Lossy -> lossless makes no sense. You're simply increasing size with no benefit and only negatives.

ALAC -> FLAC...maybe a benefit if one of your system has issues with ALAC. FLAC is more universal.

AIFF -> FLAC...you can get smaller sizes and save space while having identical copy of the music. That's a positive.

I keep music in both FLAC (highest compression) and WAV. Both have a purpose.

[dB Cooper]

Agreed AAC>FLAC is pointless- once data is removed, it doesn't come back (although aac 320 sounds pretty good)

[Mike B.]

Most of what I transfer to my digital setup is WAV. The only FLAC are downloads from HDtracks, etc. Makes download time far faster.

[matthewpartrick]

Thanks folks. Just converting from ALAC  and AIFF to FLAC then.

Thanks again!

[matthewpartrick]

All the ALAC and AIFF conversion to FLAC is going fine.  It sure is a lot of manual work though.  I'm using DBpoweramp converter.  Anyone else out there doing this?

[aldcoll]

Dbpoweramp had a BATCH converter component.  I bought the complete package years ago and do not recall the various components or packages.

It is a 1 step operation when you set the options you desire.  It will do 1 song or 1 hard drive with dsp options.

Alan

[richidoo]

+1 for the batch converter.  It works great.
The link to it is in the Program Menus.

[matthewpartrick]

Dbpoweramp had a BATCH converter component.  I bought the complete package years ago and do not recall the various components or packages.

It is a 1 step operation when you set the options you desire.  It will do 1 song or 1 hard drive with dsp options.

Alan

I spent about an hour last night trying to get this to work but couldn't.  The files are on a NAS, and I cannot get DBPoweramp to find that NAS.  So, the work-around was to dump the whole music folder onto the computer hard drive (which I left to do overnight) and I'm going to re-try the batch converter tonight.