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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: toomanybarts on May 11, 2008, 12:51:19 am

Title: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: toomanybarts on May 11, 2008, 12:51:19 am: Surely this is possible?
Am I missing something - it would seem you could just call the (DBPoweramp Reference's) coreconverter.exe directly from MC as an "external encoder" (as you would for using your own version of lame)?
Isn't this the solution a lot of people have been looking for?
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: neovibe on May 11, 2008, 03:49:41 pm: I'd like to know too
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: toomanybarts on May 19, 2008, 10:29:28 pm: bump
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: neovibe on June 18, 2008, 10:33:21 am: bump?
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: hit_ny on June 18, 2008, 11:27:41 am: Look up rockbox

no need to convert :)
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: neovibe on June 18, 2008, 11:53:39 am: Quote from: hit_ny on June 18, 2008, 11:27:41 am
Look up rockbox

no need to convert :)

...unless you have a touch/iphone...
(any news on a touch compatible rockbox?)
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: hit_ny on June 18, 2008, 12:09:24 pm: The hoops they make you jump through ::)

If you have the cmd line to do this with dbpowerammp then it should be possible to kick it off from MC.

Right click a file (or more)->Library Tools->Convert Format

Click the change button at the top right

Select Encoding on the left, then click the pulldown for Encoder on the right and select external encoder

You will be greeted by a window that asks for paramters to be used with your encoder.

After this you need to decide where you want the finished files, otherwise they will be created in the same dirs where the the FLACs live (by default).

Library Tools->Convert Format->Options (help) will explain the various options.
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: neovibe on June 18, 2008, 04:58:28 pm: not the 1st time I see MC12 doing what you/I thought it couldn't do :D

so does this mean it could technically convert flac/ape(+cue) to alac seamlessly when syncing with an ipod?? :D (can't try, don't have one yet)
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: toomanybarts on June 20, 2008, 10:32:34 pm: It took a while, but we got there in the end!
hit_ny have you actually tried this?
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: hit_ny on June 21, 2008, 04:45:39 am: Quote from: neovibe on June 18, 2008, 04:58:28 pm
so does this mean it could technically convert flac/ape(+cue) to alac seamlessly when syncing with an ipod?? :D (can't try, don't have one yet)
So far, i see this as two steps, convert + sync, maybe some one more experienced can comment, whether, its possible to convert lossless to lossy + sync to portable in one step.

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hit_ny have you actually tried this?
No, as i use neither format nor have even seen dbpoweramp but given enough experience in other areas you develop a 'nose' for these things and so have no reason to doubt it would work if dbpoweramp, as an external encoder, is given the correct cmd line where required.

If it does not, let us know :)
Title: Re: FLAC to ALAC using DBPoweramp Reference command line from MC12
Post by: neovibe on June 21, 2008, 04:10:47 pm: come on... can someone try it ? ;D