If you combine the Automator script with an AppleScript, you could
probably do this. iTunes has an AppleScript function to convert, but
I've never used it. Let me know if you get this all working.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 6 Dec, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi everyone. I wanted to try an expand the automator workflow that
gets the currently open text edit document and converts it in to an
audio file. Here's what I wanted it to do. Once the aiff file was
created, it would then be opened in sound studio. The file would
then be saved as an aac file with a .m4a extension. The next action
would rename the file and change its extension to .m4b. Finally,
the file would get imported in to itunes. I wanted to change the
extension to m4b so that itunes would place it in the audio books
section, rather then in music.
The part that didn't work was the sound studio action to save the
file as an aac file. What it did was it saved the file as an aiff
again, but it threw in an m4a extension in the middle. So it was
something like audio.m4a.aiff. So either I'm doing something wrong,
or that automator action doesn't work properly.
I did a google search, and I found some other automator actions you
could get that would convert audio files. It appears though that
they require quicktime pro. I'm not apposed to buying quicktime
pro, but I'm not sure if I'd use it for anything else.
Anyway, since we've been talking about automator quite a bit lately,
I thought some of you might be interested in what I've been trying
to accomplish with it.
Darcy
