KVR Audio

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 11:16 pm

How do you convert your audio files on Mac? On Windows I always liked to use Foobar2000, which is available on OSX but only in very limited functionality (alternative would be at most the Windows version with Crossover).

Is there a tool for OSX that has a good ID3 editor and at the same time supports different audio formats (at least Flac and MP3)?
What I have tested so far: DBPoweramp, XLD, To Audio Converter

syntonica · Post by **syntonica** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:29 am

My current fave is TwistedWave. It has the best batch processing and supports id3, bwav and Soundminer tags.

https://twistedwave.com/mac

Edit: this is a commercial release. I don't know of anything good and free, except maybe VLC.

Etienne1973 · Post by **Etienne1973** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:34 am

frea:c or Audacity

Both no beauties but deliver.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:41 am

XLD is the simplest and best converter in my opinion, it's free too...
https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

also MP3tag is the best tag editor, there's a free wine version somewhere.
the new version is not too expensive, been using it for years
https://mp3tag.app/

sprnva · Post by **sprnva** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:59 am

Another vote for XLD here. It's what I'm most familiar with.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:11 pm

Great.
What do you think of tools like fre:ac or DB Poweramp?

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:39 pm

There is also this.
https://sbooth.org/Max/
Since I came across it, its my tool for those duties…

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:14 pm

Kid3 is the only Id3 editor I bother with (says Linux but the Mac build works great - https://kid3.kde.org/)

Good free audio converter is the Mediahuman one https://www.mediahuman.com/products.html

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:44 pm

syntonica wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:29 am My current fave is TwistedWave. It has the best batch processing and supports id3, bwav and Soundminer tags.

https://twistedwave.com/mac

Edit: this is a commercial release. I don't know of anything good and free, except maybe VLC.

Worth pointing out: Twisted Wave is first and foremost a very capable audio editor. I wouldn't enjoy life quite as much without it.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 5:39 pm

I still remember Kid3 when I used Linux for a few years... the player "Amarok" was probably ported to OSX as well (but named a bit different). Kid3 can do exactly what I need

Thanks.
For audio converters, I really like Max as well. XLD and Max are both great!

Audio Converter for OSX?