AudioBot

AudioBot is a fast, reliable, and extensible Audio Batch Processor, which is used extensively in game studios around the world. Here are some of its main features:

Input:

• Supports most common file formats: Wave (including broadcast wave), AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, ...
• Reads and preserves metadata.
• Imports / exports list of files (drag and drop, text files, Excel files...).
• Uses filters on directories (based on audio file characteristics, last modification date, size...).
• Detects duplicates and removes them if needed.
• Waveform visualization and playback.
• Sets watchers on directories, so files are automatically processed when added or modified.
• Possibility to write custom import plug-ins for proprietary formats.

Processing:

• Internal functions to crop, pad, normalize, fade in and out, remove quietest parts, etc.
• VST plug-ins host, so you can use your favourite effects.
• VAMP plug-ins host to perform sound analyses.
• Creation of plug-in / processing chains.
• Possibility to write custom processing plug-ins for specific needs.
• 64-bit processing, multithreaded. Adapts to your number of cores and hardware threads.
• Can complete a batch processing in several sessions.
• Allows custom commands before / after a batch processing session (or even before / after each file processing).
• Command line version available for easy integration in your audio pipeline.

Output:

• Allows for complex renaming schemes.
• Bit-depth, channel, sample rate and format conversions.
• Automatic injection of metadata into the files, or metadata stripping.
• Full reporting with details about data, timings, errors, etc.
• Can also export results as Excel file, HTML, or PDF with stats and charts.
• Exports to game audio middleware such as AudioKinetic's Wwise, Firelight Technologies' FMOD or ADX2 from CRI Middleware.
• Exports file information to XML or Excel.
• Notification options for termination or errors: email, sound, tweet...
• Automatically generates HTML5-compatible web sites that allow the browsing of the audio files.
• Exports folders or list of files as PDFs with pictures (sample catalogues).
• Possibility to write custom export plug-ins for proprietary formats.