Hey guys. I'm writing a perl script to help organize my music collection. In each album folder, I'm thinking about having the songs in lossless (Apple Lossless) and lossy (AAC) formats. My question is how (preferably through perl) can I tell which format an audio file is. Both of them use the .m4a extension.
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macOS How do I distinguish an AAC and Apple Lossless audio file?
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Read the bit rate info of music to distinguish between files.
(In iTunes you can do a smart playlist.)
(In iTunes you can do a smart playlist.)
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Instead of just relying on bitrate, you could just use MP4::Info http://search.cpan.org/~jhar/MP4-Info-1.12/Info.pm and look for
(If you are using iTunes, it is FAR easier to just do a smart playlist).
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Code:
ENCODING = 'alac'(If you are using iTunes, it is FAR easier to just do a smart playlist).
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