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I am attempting to convert FLAC files with replaygain data to M4A/AAC files. When I try to do so with ffmpeg, it converts most of the tags, but not replaygain. It doesn't matter if I add -...
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I used Audacity to created a WAV file with 4 samples of 10 seconds separated by 5 minute gaps of silence each. While the original samples were only a few MB the exported WAV file is 150 MB. Encoding ...
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When I convert any audio or even video (for example MKA or MP3) to M4A FFmpeg keep metadata (tags) like Title, Artist etc, but I cannot edit it by MP3TAG as encoded file has no MPEG4 IOD/OD even ...
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Adding more than one image as album art to mp3 via command line was already explained at Superuser. I would like to know how to do this for m4a audio files to have a front and back cover. I know that ...
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I was just looking through an old harddisk, and I found some (apparently) M4A files that I'd love to listen to (it's recordings of me and a friend playing guitar). But neither VLC nor any other app ...
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I want a single command to retrieve track number (or other metadata) from an audio file using ffprobe.
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I install ffmpeg in the aws EC2 environment and convert the audio wav file to m4a, but I'm having trouble with loud noise I don't know how to set parameters without noise. The ffmpeg version is ffmpeg-...
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I have a relatively large music library (about 55,000 songs - primarily .m4a and .mp3), some of which was ripped from scratched CDs. How can I either fix the files, or get a list of ones with issues? ...
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I have some sound recordings I made but now, it is recovered as .audio file. So, I downloaded Audacity and I'm trying to convert it back to .m4a. But I have no idea what should I put in these fields:
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The short question is: How do you convert a .wav file to .m4a without having any leading or trailing silence added to the output? The file is supposed to be played in an endless loop, where even a ...
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I'm trying to use ffmpeg for trimming .m4a files, i.e. discarding some parts at the beginning and at the end and applying fade-in and fade-out effects around the remaining part, which I'd like to ...
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I would like to cut a song from 1:45 to the end (I mean, I would like to keep only the part from 0:00 to 1:45). But I don't want to lose the quality of the song. How can I to do that using FFmpeg? ...
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I have a couple of corrupt m4a file that I'd like to try to repair by rebuilding the container, so I thought ffmpeg could do that easily. However, when I run this, even on a valid file, I get an error:...
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I am a newbie in audio processing research and using pydub module in python3 to manipulate audio files in “m4a” format. It is ok for me to read the original m4a files with pydub at the beginning, but ...
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In Windows 10 it is possible to add tags to a number of file types, including .m4a files. What I mean are these: I would like to read those tags programatically, but I have found nothing that tells ...
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