Full Version: EAC and AAC
Can it be done? I am quite baffled. I just noticed that EAC and AAC page was never written. I would write one except I am unsure how exactly you configure EAC and use it as an external compressor with something like Nero AAC. Considering I have had poor luck with the Nero AAC encoder in the past (albeit why I don't encode with it) I was wondering if anyone could lend a helping hand or any assistance in this department. It would be great guide for all of the IPod and Itunes users out there (that doesn't include me). Well anyway if you have any working knowledge at all about this topic please feel free to discuss it here. Thanks. Take care.
Great question. I would love an answer as well.
I see no reason why not, but in the meantime we do have this:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=44310
In general I think stickies suck, but in this one is from someone who truly knows his shit.
If someone does make an EAC AAC article (Synthetic Soul, exec?), please use the others as a boiler plate. Someone made a bit of a mess out of the flac page, but it got fixed.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=44310
In general I think stickies suck, but in this one is from someone who truly knows his shit.
If someone does make an EAC AAC article (Synthetic Soul, exec?), please use the others as a boiler plate. Someone made a bit of a mess out of the flac page, but it got fixed.
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If someone does make an EAC AAC article (Synthetic Soul, exec?), please use the others as a boiler plate. Someone made a bit of a mess out of the flac page, but it got fixed.
Yeah it didn't make any sense someone thought we should merge both articles together into one, but due to the fact there are so many EAC Guides we don't want the same information to be written over and over again.
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If someone does make an EAC AAC article (Synthetic Soul, exec?), please use the others as a boiler plate. Someone made a bit of a mess out of the flac page, but it got fixed.
I noticed that sticky page when I was looking to encode with Nero AAC (The standard input always yells at me though when I try to pipe the file in! it even complains with the Nero AAC Frontend! (Speaking of which I should probably link to that. I am sure somebody will have more luck then I do. There is Frontend that exists so that you can pipe your FLAC files directly to AAC). I am acustomed to using Vorbis, which is a quick skip, hop, and a jump.
Note: I will get the page started and then somebody else can finish it up!
Check this out! I found a guide for configuring CDex with AAC. I will have to incoporate some of this information into the wiki as well.
http://www.fucema.net/2008/3/18/cdex-confi...-nero-aac-codec
Speaking of piping, I made this drag-and-drop batch converter for NeroAacEnc per a request which accepts a variety of lossless formats, preserves basic tag information, and scales the input according to RG album gain. Maybe someone will find it helpful...
Tag.exe can be found at Synthetic Soul's website. Eval.exe can be found here. Sox.exe can be found at sourceforge.net. A special build of mac.exe that provides for stdout can be found at rarewares.org or you can get an updated one at etree.org.
EDIT: Spelling and grammar. The code is still the same.
CODE
@ECHO OFF
IF "%~1" == "" neroaacenc -help && GOTO end
SET PARAMS=-q0.45
:encode
TITLE Encoding "%~nx1"
IF EXIST "%~1.tag" GOTO encode_shift
IF EXIST "%~dpn1.m4a" GOTO encode_shift
SET /p nul=Encoding "%~nx1" <nul
IF /i "%~x1" == ".wav" (CALL :encode_wav %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".wv" (CALL :encode_wv %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".tak" (CALL :encode_tak %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".flac" (CALL :encode_flac %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".ape" (CALL :encode_ape %1
) ELSE ECHO ... Invalid file && GOTO encode_shift
)
)
)
)
ECHO Done
:encode_shift
SHIFT
IF "%~1" EQU "" ECHO. && GOTO end
GOTO encode
:encode_wav
SET /p nul=... <nul
neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if %1 -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_wv
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
wvunpack -q %1 - | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_tak
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
takc -d %1 - | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_flac
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
flac -dcs %1 | %SCALE% neroAacEnc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_ape
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
mac %1 - -d 2>nul | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:taginfo
tag %1 2> "%~1.tag"
SET SCALE=
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Title:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET title=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Artist:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET artist=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Album:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET album=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Year:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET year=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Track:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET track=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Genre:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET genre=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Comment:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET comment=%%Y
)
SET TAGINFO=-meta:title="%title%" -meta:artist="%artist%" -meta:album="%album%" -meta:year="%year%" -meta:track="%track%" -meta:genre="%genre%" -meta:comment="%comment%"
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1,2* delims== " %%X IN (`findstr "replaygain_album_gain" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET SCALE=%%Y
)
IF DEFINED SCALE FOR /F %%X IN ('EVAL 10^^^^^(%SCALE%/20^)') DO SET SCALE=sox -v %%X -t wav - -t wav - 2^>nul ^|
DEL "%~1.tag"
GOTO :eof
:end
PAUSE
IF "%~1" == "" neroaacenc -help && GOTO end
SET PARAMS=-q0.45
:encode
TITLE Encoding "%~nx1"
IF EXIST "%~1.tag" GOTO encode_shift
IF EXIST "%~dpn1.m4a" GOTO encode_shift
SET /p nul=Encoding "%~nx1" <nul
IF /i "%~x1" == ".wav" (CALL :encode_wav %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".wv" (CALL :encode_wv %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".tak" (CALL :encode_tak %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".flac" (CALL :encode_flac %1
) ELSE (IF /i "%~x1" == ".ape" (CALL :encode_ape %1
) ELSE ECHO ... Invalid file && GOTO encode_shift
)
)
)
)
ECHO Done
:encode_shift
SHIFT
IF "%~1" EQU "" ECHO. && GOTO end
GOTO encode
:encode_wav
SET /p nul=... <nul
neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if %1 -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_wv
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
wvunpack -q %1 - | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_tak
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
takc -d %1 - | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_flac
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
flac -dcs %1 | %SCALE% neroAacEnc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:encode_ape
CALL :taginfo %1
SET /p nul=... <nul
mac %1 - -d 2>nul | %SCALE% neroaacenc %PARAMS% -if - -of "%~dpn1.m4a" 2>nul
neroAacTag "%~dpn1.m4a" %TAGINFO% 2>nul
GOTO :eof
:taginfo
tag %1 2> "%~1.tag"
SET SCALE=
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Title:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET title=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Artist:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET artist=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Album:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET album=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Year:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET year=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Track:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET track=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Genre:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET genre=%%Y
)
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1*" %%X IN (`findstr "Comment:" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET comment=%%Y
)
SET TAGINFO=-meta:title="%title%" -meta:artist="%artist%" -meta:album="%album%" -meta:year="%year%" -meta:track="%track%" -meta:genre="%genre%" -meta:comment="%comment%"
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1,2* delims== " %%X IN (`findstr "replaygain_album_gain" "%~1.tag"`) DO (
SET SCALE=%%Y
)
IF DEFINED SCALE FOR /F %%X IN ('EVAL 10^^^^^(%SCALE%/20^)') DO SET SCALE=sox -v %%X -t wav - -t wav - 2^>nul ^|
DEL "%~1.tag"
GOTO :eof
:end
PAUSE
Tag.exe can be found at Synthetic Soul's website. Eval.exe can be found here. Sox.exe can be found at sourceforge.net. A special build of mac.exe that provides for stdout can be found at rarewares.org or you can get an updated one at etree.org.
EDIT: Spelling and grammar. The code is still the same.
QUOTE (greynol @ Jul 30 2008, 04:03) 
Speaking of piping, I made this drag-and-drop batch converter for NeroAacEnc per a request which accepts a variety of lossless formats, preserves basic tag information, and scales the input according to RG album gain. Maybe someone will find it helpful...
I do 
, thanks a bunch!
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