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Trying To Convert ACC To FLAC Files In dBpoweramp Batch Converter??? Help Please

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Posted on August 31, 2014 at 09:52:22
RadioWonder
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 I have used dBpoweramp Batch Converter to convert FLAC to Uncompressed Flac and it works great... Now I want to convert ACC Files to Uncompressed FLAC Files... So far Batch Converter does not recognize the ACC Files... I click on and Select an ACC Album and Click Convert. It says "No Files Have Been Selected"... I am perplexed... Any help would be appreciated...

 

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RE: Trying To Convert ACC To FLAC Files In dBpoweramp Batch Converter??? Help Please, posted on August 31, 2014 at 10:12:35
ted_b
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 A few things:
1) AAC is lossy, so conversion will remain lossy
2) make sure you check the boxes on the batch converter, either on the left side (albums) or right side (selections)
3) depending on the AAC, you might need to download the codec from DBpoweramp in order for DBPoweramp to recognize it. Doubt it, but possible, as DBPoweramp has specialized AAC encoders for the fringe ones.

 

RE: Trying To Convert ACC To FLAC Files In dBpoweramp Batch Converter??? Help Please, posted on August 31, 2014 at 13:29:44
RadioWonder
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 Thanks, ted_b... That helped.

Just found this page and it was helpful also...

I also needed to "(run dBpoweramp Configuration and Check for Updates)."

 

Futile Effort, posted on September 1, 2014 at 07:18:50
Stale
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 AAC is lossy so converting to lossless FLAC will yield nothing (compressed or not makes no difference). If you want FLAC (lossless) start with lossless.


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Worse than Futile, posted on September 1, 2014 at 08:04:15
Tony Lauck
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 Converting lossy formats to lossless formats is a very poor idea. You won't lose any more sound quality, but you are sowing the seeds of future confusion when you play one of these FLAC files and finds it sounds poor. If you need to do this for some reason, then make sure the polluted FLAC files are labeled as the garbage they are and keep them out of your music library.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

 

RE: Worse than Futile, posted on September 23, 2014 at 12:46:02
Bones13
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 But he may need to change them to FLAC to play on a particular program/device that does not recognize AAC. MP3 would be a better choice in that regard though.

 

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