Rekordbox Audio Converter

This is a python audio converter that uses ffmpeg to convert audio files from one format to Rekordbox audio formats (as listed here: https://cdn.rekordbox.com/files/20210302175909/rekordbox6.4.2_introduction_de.pdf [p.23]). Currently the converter is only configured to convert to:

• WAV
• AIFF

But those are the main formats I see as important anyway. Other formats can be added in the audio_converter.py AudioConverter class This is how the config looks like:

self.allowed_formats = ['aiff', 'wav']
self.allowed_quality = ['normal', 'high']
self.ffmpeg_type_arguments = {
    "aiff_normal": {
        "codec": 'pcm_s16be',
        "sampling_rate": '44100',
        "bit_rate": None,
        "custom": [],
    },
    "aiff_high": {
        "codec": 'pcm_s24be',
        "sampling_rate": '96000',
        "bit_rate": None,
        "custom": [],
    },
    ...
}

• allowed_formats are the out formats
• allowed_quality is the output quality
• ffmpeg_type_arguments are the ffmpeg arguments for audio codec, sampling rate, bit rate and other custom ffmpeg arguments. The key of an configuration should be: "<OUT_FILE_TYPE>_<OUT_QUALITY>". So in this example the file type aiff with settings for normal and high quality is configured

Prerequisites

The Python scripts are made to run on windows devices only, but may work on other OS too (did not test).

If you have not installed ffmpeg then do so, because it is required. Also don't forget to add it to your PATH environment variables.

Setup

Copy the config-sample.json and rename it to config.json

First Steps

1. run install_requirements.bat to install required python packages
2. run make_spec.bat to create a spec file with pyinstaller
3. run build.bat to build the executable from the spec file

Build

execute step 3 of previous chapter