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dBpoweramp on MacOS
I have just made the switch from a PC to a MacBook Pro. One of my first installs was dBpoweramp. I wanted to convert all of my FLAC to ALAC. So did a search in Finder for all FLAC filetypes, hit command-A, and then used the context menu to convert in dBpoweramp. On Windows, this would have started the conversion process. But on my new Mac, I got a few hundred instances of dBpoweramp that opened up and I had to click OK on each and every instance one at a time. I ended up rebooting the computer as I could not figure out how to end all of the processes. Now I am quite sure this is "user error". I'm still figuring out the new way to do things on MacOS. Please tell me the best way to accomplish this task in MacOS.
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Use Batch Converter, select the filter to FLAC and choose the root folder.
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Awesome. I will try this tonight.Comment
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Next time dBpoweramp - or some other app - does this for you, press cmd+Q to politely ask it to quit - equivalent to "Quit dBpoweramp" menu command. Unless the app is entirely unresponsive, this will quit the app closing all its windows with one action.
If the above doesn't work, use "Force Quit" from Apple menu (shortcut: opt+cmd+esc) to stop offending app - again no need to deal with each window individually.
That said, I have no idea how you did what you did, macOS is specifically supposed to send all files to a single instance and does so on my machines, though "services" menu seems unreliable for many items, macOS seems to stop showing it above some count of selected files.Comment
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