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I've sent an email with suggestions a while ago and didn't hear anything back.

My biggest gripe right now is when I want to batch process audio files, I have no choice but to convert to .wav files. I'm trying to resample a bunch of .mp3's from 48khz to 44.1khz. Without having to convert them to wav.
I have like ten audio programs and in 2024 not a single one of them can batch process audio. Except for Audacity with a user made script.

The reason I spent a hundred bucks on this program is to batch process audio files, and apparently I can't do that.
I wish it would have all available types, Flac, Wav, Mp3, Ogg etc. not just Wav and Raw. And an option not to convert at all (same as input file), but still use the other processing options.

SuperTRev wrote: ↑

April 11th, 2024, 01:02

I'm trying to resample a bunch of .mp3's from 48khz to 44.1khz. Without having to convert them to wav.
I have like ten audio programs and in 2024 not a single one of them can batch process audio. Except for Audacity with a user made script.
The reason I spent a hundred bucks on this program is to batch process audio files, and apparently I can't do that.
I wish it would have all available types, Flac, Wav, Mp3, Ogg etc. not just Wav and Raw. And an option not to convert at all (same as input file), but still use the other processing options.

To clear up one thing first:

Resonic never advertised Batch Processing as one of its features, even though the infrastructure somewhat exists. What exists is a feature called Batch Targets (folders with decoding and resampling features) are detailed on this page: https://resonic.at/docs/targets
Of course with low or no demand there is no point in implementing features, hence a the bottom of the page I ask people to make suggestions. Not many have responded to this so far.

About your mp3s:

There is no such thing as really resampling a lossy file format. What you're effectively doing is destroying sound quality by recompressing them. Unless there is a very particular reason (like a weird player it's for that cannot handle 48k) for going to 44.1k from 48k I suggest not doing it. You'll lose way, way more quality by recompression than by just resampling during playback.

That much being said, now that mp3 is patent-free (which means I can write mp3s without additional fees legally) I am considering adding additional output file formats (possibly mp3, ogg, flac, wv) to Resonic batch targets.

You're right about the bad decision to try and convert from mp3 to wav.
I've decided to acquire wav files instead of mp3's from the source instead of convert them.