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

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.