Hi!
I do use these two programs for single and batch photo and video compression. They let you cut the file size by ~80% without any noticeable loss in quality, but can not find anything similar for my huuuge music collection. Any reccomendations please?
CompressO -> https://github.com/codeforreal1/compressO Caesium Image Compressor -> https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor
Save some space, guys!
fre:ac is a gui program that can do exactly what you need. It supports every codec you could ever want. Unless you want ATRAC for some weird reason.
Edit: Also it supports Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
That’s what I use. It even has the FDK-AAC encoder which many open souce projects leave out due to the patent situation, though that does not matter if you only use LC-AAC.
AAC always confused me. I’ve seen them use the extensions .m4a, .mp4, and .aac. But they’re all different are they not? I still have a few albums I downloaded on iTunes back in the day and they’re all .m4a. More confusing however, ALAC also uses the .m4a extension. I think Apple is bad at naming things.
They are just file extensions that refer to containers. .m4a and .mp4 use an MP4 container which allows for metadata while .aac is raw.