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at the moment every time I save a file I have to flip through all the file formats and when I try and save as flac it wants to save .fla which is confusing.
what batch conversion and batch normalising programs can I use? Cheers

I use Cool Edit Pro which saves as .fla (it can't handle 4-character extensions). But as Freesound lets me upload .fla files, I just keep them all as .fla.

Mike

mike i noticed this when you sent me the stop file - however when i just put a c at the end it let me convert it, otherwise it opens it up in Flash - as flash format is .fla !

zeroline - as batch conversion goes i use http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html which enables you to encode and decode multiple flac files!

I use Easy CD-DA convertor or Sonic Foundry Batch Convertor. Not sure about the FLAC thing as I use Monkey's Audio usually.

I use MacFLAC on OSX and dBpowerAMP Music Converter with the FLAC plugin on windows mostly.

I'm using my Mac most of the time now, so I forget how dBpowerAMP's batch abilities are, but its explorer integration is top-notch.

MacFLAC is innately a batch converter, which is convenient. I generally convert one-at-a-time though, so I can check the error log for each file individually. When exporting from any Apple program such as Final Cut Pro, this is unfortunately neccessary because they produce notoriously non-standard aiff files. (I sometimes need to convert to wav with VLC first before passing it into MacFLAC in order to eliminate unknown chunks.)

I use Audacity < http://audacity.sourceforge.net > for editing out unwanted sounds and some effects, dBpowerAMP < http://www.dbpoweramp.com > for convertions and normalization and AV Music Morpher < http://www.musicmorpher.com > for morphing voice and other preset weird effects.