i have a bunch of .m4a files in one folder, 1000s. can i automate their conversion somehow?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    8 months ago

    It’ll also error out or prompt to overwrite an existing file unless a flag is passed that tells it to overwrite unattended.

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      7 months ago

      Sure, but if it errors out no harm no foul, and don’t pass any flags to overwrite the input file which I had not included above.

      While I’m thinking about it, what is that flag? Because afaik ffmpeg can’t overwrite and convert the file simultaneously, you have to use a temp file.

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        7 months ago

        That’s the point: you have to go out of your way to accidentally overwrite your input files with ffmpeg.

        And no it indeed can’t output to the same file as input.