Wav to AAC batch conversion?

[little louie]

New to PC Mech, very impressed so far.

Can anyone help with this:

Have 200GB of music in Wav format on an external HD. I want to import it into iTunes on my C-drive in AAC format. How can I do it?

Thanks

[glc]

I just googled "wav aac batch conversion" and got a lot of hits. I'm assuming most of it is shareware.

[little louie]

I take it then that iTunes doesn't have an option to do the conversion itself?

[SonicVanguard]

iTunes does not have the ability to convert .wav to .aac - iTunes does not even playback .wav files - Apple's QTPlayer handles that job. You can either Google it as GLC recommended or use something like CDex to convert the .wav files to high quality mp3 files (192k or higher I'd suggest) and then since iTunes can easily handle mp3's, have it convert those. But if you find a easy way of converting from .wav to .aac, do that since you'll have some loss of quality unless you convert the .wav to 320k mp3s then to aac.

[little louie]

I've had a play around and it turns out iTunes does support .wav storage and playback and it can convert them to .aac files. You simply pull the .wav files into iTunes, set your importing preferences to .aac, highlight all the .wav files and hit convert to .aac. You lose all the artist and album info but the song titles remain so it's an easy task of re-typing the artists etc.

Note, you are left with all the original .wav files and the new .aac files in your library together, so I had to delete the .wav files from the library afterwards.

Cheers

LL