Recent content by JamesCarter

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    converting .m4a files to .wav or .aif

    Late to this thread but ran into the same issue archiving old Voice Memo recordings. If you're on someone else's machine and can't install Audacity, AhaConvert does m4a to wav right in the browser, no install needed. It won't magically add quality back since the source is still AAC, but at least...
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    Converting .wav to midi

    Heads up — WAV to MIDI isn't really a "convert the file" thing, it's audio-to-MIDI transcription, so the tool has to listen to the waveform and guess the notes, accuracy depends a lot on how clean/monophonic the track is. For that step: Spotify's Basic Pitch is free, browser-based, no install...
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    Any audio file tag experts here?

    Sounds like an ID3 tag issue, not a missing-info issue. Spotify's pickier than VLC/Poweramp about which ID3v2 version it'll actually read — some encoders write v2.4, Spotify wants v2.3, and it just falls back to the filename instead of erroring out. Given the files came from different...