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Batch conversion of Sounds with Different Format to one Format, how?

Discussion in Freesound.org, here, is stagnated. You could do this with Audacity but their developer warned about that (apparently stupid idea to load the GUIs or something like that). Is there something like ImageMagick for sounds? I have a…
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Pal to NTSC Conversion

I'm in new territory here and was hoping someone out there might be able to help. I'm at the end of a 5.1 project that was mixed at 25fps and needed to be converted to 29.97fps. All the final mixes and stems have already been converted along with…
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What are the Thunderbolt cable length limitations?

Thunderbolt has a length limitation of 3 meters. In my studio, my computer lives in a machine room that is more than 3 meters away from my desk (approx. 10 meters). Typically, the audio interface could just live in the machine room and I could run…
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Is there a way to identify an audio file that is converted from lossy to lossless format (without hearing)?

I downloaded some audio files with flac extension. I only had cheap earphones at that time and I couldn't really figure out whether it is real flac or just fake. Later when I played it through my friend's hifi system, It was totally unbearable. I…
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Pal To Ntsc conversion

Hey Guys I don't know if you can help, am at the end of a film, ready to send it in to submit for a festival, the festival wants the video in NTSC format and when we did the conversion from pal to ntsc the sounds pitch went higher, like we…
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Lossless convert WMA to WAV on a mac

Anyone know of any software that can convert wma files to wav without any loss of quality e.g. loseless conversion?
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Batch conversion from FLAC to Apple Lossless, using ffmpeg terminal command

I started using the answer to this question but the correct answer works only for the current directory and I would like to recurse through a tree. The answers given below the one I mention did not help. After research about the find command, I…
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Is converting a wav file to an m4a file going to reduce sound quality?

Is converting a wav file to an m4a file going to reduce sound quality? I tried to change the termination from wav to m4a as the software I’m importing into doesn’t support 32 bit wavs. It works, but I feel like it doesn’t sound as qualitative,…
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Identification of VOX/ADPCM-like format needed

I'm dealing with an odd format here, and it seems similar to VOX ADPCM, 8000Hz, but it when played back as such, produces the most horrendous sound. It's definitely similar to VOX ADPCM or some variant thereof, but I've been trying to identify it.…
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Audio Cassette to Digital Archiving: high-quality, complete hardware and software solution

I am a musician and I have around 100 audio cassette recordings of compositions I've done since I was a kid sitting in a box untouched for about 8 years and I am anxious to transfer and archive them to a loss-less digital format for long term…
Stephen Swensen