I do use these two programs for single and batch photo and video compression. They let you cut the file size by ~80% without any noticeable loss in quality, but can not find anything similar for my huuuge music collection. Any reccomendations please?

CompressO -> https://github.com/codeforreal1/compressO Caesium Image Compressor -> https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

fre:ac is a gui program that can do exactly what you need. It supports every codec you could ever want. Unless you want ATRAC for some weird reason.

Edit: Also it supports Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's what I use. It even has the FDK-AAC encoder which many open souce projects leave out due to the patent situation, though that does not matter if you only use LC-AAC.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

AAC always confused me. I've seen them use the extensions .m4a, .mp4, and .aac. But they're all different are they not? I still have a few albums I downloaded on iTunes back in the day and they're all .m4a. More confusing however, ALAC also uses the .m4a extension. I think Apple is bad at naming things.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

They are just file extensions that refer to containers. .m4a and .mp4 use an MP4 container which allows for metadata while .aac is raw.