I just found a hard drive back-up with better quality audio files than ones I imported into Apple Music awhile ago (CD quality, 320 kbps vs. 192). Other than going through every song in my Apple Music Library one by one, is there any way to search or find the 192kbps files?
If not, any less time-consuming way to find them in the "Music" folder where the non-Apple Music songs are kept?
Thanks.
MacBook Pro 17″, macOS 10.13
If you have System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results > Music category selected, and the drive is indexed, then the syntax that I provided can be entered in the Spotlight 🔍 menu bar item, or in a Finder Window search field. I suggest the latter as it will show more files.
If you have System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results > Music category selected, and the drive is indexed, then the syntax that I provided can be entered in the Spotlight 🔍 menu bar item, or in a Finder Window search field. I suggest the latter as it will show more files.
Try the following to isolate the audio bitrate. You can use the < or > operators immediately after the bitrate colon to see rates above or below too.
kind:audio bitrate:192000
I have the Eagles Desperado.m4a here that has an audio bitrate of 266231 and that would be a use case for a >192000.
Thank you. But I'm not a pro and don't know what to do with this. I tried Terminal first but that didn't work. I Googled isolate audio bit rate but that was the Compressor for video. I also Googled < > operators but that's a career.
That worked! Only gave me 50. But I can replace those then search again. And repeat. Thank you.
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