Hi all, long time lurker but new registrant. I recently bought Quicktime Pro for it's high quality AAC encoder. I've been able to encode WAV files to 160kbps True VBR AAC on the Best quality setting, however it takes forever because one has to individually select each WAV and export to MP4 on a Windows machine. I know that there are programs that will batch encode files with OS X via Quicktime, but there isn't an apparent solution for Windows. I've been searching for workarounds and a bit of code called Qutibacoas looked promising for use with EAC, but has not worked for me. Are there any programs or workarounds that would enable me to batch encode WAV files to Quicktime AAC or direct from CD via EAC? I know this must be possible, but I'm not technically proficient enough to write a script that would allow me to do this. Any help from you experts would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

I'd also like to find a (windows) solution to encode by command line to the m4a/aac quicktime true vbr mode. Thanks.

You can, I understand, automate nearly anything within Windows using AutoIT (freeware) which was used to create REACT for automating tasks in Exact Audio Copy (EAC) using scripts and is used by IT admins for installing software automatically to PCs on company networks. AutoIT is a VisualBASIC style language - think of it like recording your mouseclicks, copy, paste, drag selection, type in dialog box, etc. then editing the underlying objects and actions to make a useful macro in a Microsoft Office app like Excel to automate something.

Maybe this will enable you to run QT pro, load in turn a group of files, encode each and move on to the next. You could even use a secure ripper (e.g. EAC) wait until the output WAV or lossless file is complete then run QT pro to encode each file in turn and await the next ripped track.

You may be able to learn something from REACT to simplify the learning curve and generate the config files that enable you to specify, for example, program install locations, and set user options for encoder settings.

thanks, if I don't find an existing command-line encoder (which would mean not having to program), I'll look into autoit after trying out the sdk interface. (I asked this in a another thread, but I'm assuming I do need to buy quick time pro in order to get apple's version of true vbr encoding, and that itunes does not have it already.)

Of course, if Quicktime isn't important, Nero's AAC encoder is true VBR and of good quality.

That's what I use now, but I would have liked to compare it with Apple's true vbr encoder, since it's been suggested that it may be significantly better. (also, I assume apple will be making further refinements to aac encoding, but maybe they're already near the limit now.) I don't know if nero has mentioned its plans--I think the download page for the nero encoder is still down, though available by ftp and elsewhere.