Stuck m4a decoder?

PatBarr · Post by **PatBarr** » Sat Nov 30, 2019 6:20 am

I haven't seen this happen before. I just spent an afternoon dubbing some songs from records (with my shiny new phono cartridge). I kept saving them as "Apple MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a)" with Apple Lossless as the setting. When I got around to looking at the files in Finder, the sizes were tiny.

I have tried quitting and relaunching. Sometimes Amadeus saves ALAC in an expected size but often it appears to over-compress the file. For example, a song in AIFF is 44.3MB but the supposed ALAC setting squeezes it down to 4.1MB. Amadeus 2.6 (2168) running on OS 10.14.6.

Post by **Martin Hairer** » Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:58 am

Weird... What happens when you try to play one of these files in the Finder and / or when you try to open them back in Amadeus?
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paulwi1008 · Post by **paulwi1008** » Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:34 pm

I posted a question that probably should go elsewhere but can't delete. Ignore this post.