Barb3aBatch 4.0.55

From the Finder you drag files and folders (multiple file formats are no problem) onto the BarbaBatch input window. Then you select one or more predefined conversion settings, or you create new settings for a conversion.
You select the output destination folder and you hit Go. For each selected conversion a folder will be created and the complete input hierarchy (sub folders and all) will be recreated in the required file format.

For each file type you can set bit rate (kbits/sec) or number of bits per word up to 64 bits. BarbaBatch offers the highest possible quality in samplerate conversion. Samplerates can range from 1000 Hz to 192 kHz. Channel processing is flexible. You can mix stereo to mono or vise versa, copy just single channels left or right, create interleaved stereo from split stereo files and vise versa.

There is a normalizer that normalizes to a user set ceiling, but also a look-ahead gating algorithm with very intuitive controls, and a look-ahead peak limiter that makes your audio blast even through the smallest of speakers.
The gate and peak limiters are built to straighten out speech, but are often used on musical material as well. Regions from Wave files, DDP IMAGE.DAT files, and Sonddesigner II files can be extracted to separate files.
You can set up the conversion so that it will convert for instance 20 seconds of audio from every input file, starting at second number 15, and creating a 1 second fade in and a 500 msec fade out. You can fade in and fade out all file types that can be input to BarbaBatch.
If you set it up to do so, BarbaBatch will try to preserve Regions, loops markers and Time Stamps and sampler information from input to output. BarbaBatch will recalculate Marker loop and region positions when regions will be extracted extracted or when s

Main features:
- Resizable windows.
- Tables displaying Soundfile information in movable, resizable and sortable columns.
- Unlimited Undo/Redo on most actions.
- Multiple (and discontinuous) selections possible in all tables and lists.
- Log file can be viewed and printed from within BarbaBatch.
- Added support for the free LAME mp3 codec, which offers a good quality conversion.
- Added support for MPEG 4 AAC files on in and output
- Added support for Broadcast Wave (bwf) MPEG II files, including annotations and timestamps
- Added support for Broadcast Wave (bwf) Linear PCM files, including annotations and timestamps
- Added support for Sonic Solutions 32 bit files
Added support for many filetypes mainly used in (Digital) telephony applications:
- Wave a-law
- Wave u-law
- 16 bit linear Dialogic vox files (extended with .p16)
- PIKA
- CCITT G.721 40 Kbps (4 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.723 16 Kbps (2 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.723 24 Kbps (3 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.723 40 Kbps (5 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.726 24 Kbps (3 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.726 32 Kbps (4 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- CCITT G.726 40 Kbps (5 bits ADPCM, 8 kHz)
- Added support for IMAGE.DAT redbook audio CD images on the input of Barbabatch. Barbabatch 4 can extract to separate tracks from such files.
- Added support for 32 bit floating point Wave (samplitude, sadie, nuendo mastering formats)
- Playback of 32 bit files.
- Playback of mp3 files.
- Playback of files up to 192 kHz.
- Reading and writing of Sonic solution timestamps
- Conversion of timestamps from input to output files in BWF (Broadcast Wave), SoundDesigner and Sonic Solutions filetypes.

Version restrictions:
- You can get only 30 seconds in the batch you convert, and that is valid for the first track only.

Enhancements
- Wave 32-bit float files were interpreted wrong on PowerPC.
- Broadcast Wave MPEG files had one wrong chunk header.
- MP3 files could fail to embed ID3 tags.