Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 5 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

1. pantulis ◴[06 Nov 24 08:32 UTC] No.42058107[source]▶

afconvert is pretty nifty for audio format conversion.

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2. subarctic ◴[06 Nov 24 09:54 UTC] No.42058930[source]▶

is it better than ffmpeg in any way?

3. jammmety ◴[06 Nov 24 10:42 UTC] No.42059678[source]▶

Apple's AAC encoders are often touted as being the 'best', quality-wise: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,119876.0.html

4. lozf ◴[06 Nov 24 15:15 UTC] No.42063573[source]▶

As jammmety said; for AAC encoding yes, but don't worry - you can have ffmpeg use that encoder to get the best of both.

5. FabHK ◴[06 Nov 24 16:12 UTC] No.42064466[source]▶

afconvert is the only way I've managed to turn mp3s into something that Books would accept as an audiobook.

    afconvert -v -s 3 -f m4bf ....mp3