Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
With this aphorism in mind i decide to realize this free mp3 encoder from lossless wav/aiff to lossy mp3. The main problem comes out from all my producers friends, they always sent me aiff file when they need to let me listen something, that is very frustrating moving 60mb for a 5 minutes song.
I always had in mind to try this out, and with advent of Air 2.0 and Native Process, i had finally the chance to realize this.
(like usual someone did it before me .. so i must quote Thibault that basically use the same strategy on AS3 Lame Project.
Not going to much in depth, what i just do is calling the command line version of lame converter passing as parameter the kbps and path of the file i want to convert (or to be correct “encode” or “re-encode” in case the source file is an mp3 too)
Now let’z go straight to HOW TO USE IT:
– Download latest version of adobe AIR
– Install Adobe Air ( it will takes only few seconds, and for those who don’t know what air this, consider this installation not far different from the .NET framework any window user are used to)
– Download version according to your os of the converter: DMG FOR MAC , EXE FOR WINDOWS (comes shortly, just need to recompile the native installer on a window machine)
– Install the converter
– Enjoy
Following few screenshots:
As you can see, program running gui is not intrusive, you can keep above any software without problems.
Just press the O logo (o stands for Open .. smart isn’t it ?! ) and you will prompt with the “choose file” window
You can easily change bitrate of encoding by right-click the icon on dock (or system tray on window)
After choosing file, the gui expands to let you know the progress of the conversion. Just press the C logo (c stand for conversion) and …
.. conversion starts .. should takes few seconds even if it’s pretty fast (circa 40 seconds for a 4 minutes aiff on my quad), converted files are saved on desktop with a -converted suffix
Special tnx goes to:
The lame Project
Siwell (Producer) now he should stop sending me Aiff big files.. no excuses
Ableton Live Keep produce great software folks!
Future upgrade:
Even if this is a one-day project, i would like to keep it going in case there will be some buzz around it, so any request are welcome, just drop me a comment
Enjoy the conversions!