Audio Conversion with NeroAacEnc

[morimando]

Hi there,
do any of you know of a good conversion tool, preferably included in the Feodra repositories, that I can use to convert any audio file (most important: m4a, mp3, flac) to m4a/aac using NeroAacEnc?
I got myself an X-Fi3 and the thing seems to be pretty picky about which kinds of AAC it accepts. My aac files that I encoded using faac/sound-juicer don't seem to be to its liking, so I tried quite a lot to get them to play and DISPLAY correctly (since when I re-encoded them using soundconverter, they were visible and I could play them, but the tags didn't work). I found that iTunes (of course...) files work, even with the correct tags and researched some more. Finally I came across the Nero AAC encoder which seems to create files that are acceptable to his majesty, King of Pickiness the 3rd (the X-Fi3).
Now the only thing missing for me to be absolutely happy is a GUI that batch-converts my files to AAC with the NeroAAC encoder. I am currently testing Asunder for future ripping purposes, but also need to convert the old AAC files to the "new" kind..
Thanks in advance for help/suggestions

[CronoCloud]

I've never much cared for Sound Juicer, sure it works for basic stuff but getting it to rip exactly how you want isn't fun. Though I haven't tried it on F16 yet. Let me take a look

Ah it does some kind of VBR by default for AAC and it does NOT strip special characters from filenames by default , that might cause issues as well. I just had issues transferring some files over to my PSP because of that.

I'm unable to find out what the X-fi3 prefers But...I did find a way to use that nero encoder with grip!

http://mycodesnippets.com/2011/03/12...rip-cd-ripper/

I tweaked it a bit and it gave me 320kbps AAC with proper tags that my PSP recognized.

Now the only thing missing for me to be absolutely happy is a GUI that batch-converts my files to AAC with the NeroAAC encoder.

Can't...NeroAAC only accepts WAV input. You can try installing soundconverter, but it probably uses FAAC for AAC. But your X-FI3 does accept MP3 and FLAC, so you could always use those instead, if necessary. My suggestion, re-rip.

CronoCloud

[morimando]

Yeah MP3 are my other problem. Some work, some don't display correctly. I'm using EasyTAG for that, but am (as of yet) unable to figure out whether it needs a special localization/character encoding. It seems UTF-8 isn't working for the Zen. Windows 1250 looked promising, but again, some work, some don't. The MP3s however are all the same, al 191kb/s (at least those for my testing purposes). I'm going nuts with this player

edit: almost forgot, Asunder seems to work well for ripping via NeroAacEnd!