# Best way to handle a folder with multiple audio formats
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/best-way-to-handle-a-folder-with-multiple-audio-formats/3040
**Category:** General Support / Questions
**Created:** [August 16, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/best-way-to-handle-a-folder-with-multiple-audio-formats/3040 "2019-08-16T18:35:02Z")
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### Author:  [@zhulick](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/zhulick)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/best-way-to-handle-a-folder-with-multiple-audio-formats/3040/7 "2019-08-20T01:17:36Z")
Done.
> [@Make \-audioac3 a catch-all for all audio \>2ch](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/feature-request-make-encoder-audioac3-a-catch-all-for-all-audio-2ch/3043):
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> Currently audioac3 command/line only applies to source AC3 audio. This means that any other codec automatically skips this line and uses the -audio command/line instead. This has the side effect of creating unnecessary heavy files when the input audio is something like Flac 2.0 or EAC3 2.0 etc. I went into more detail here - [Best way to handle a folder with multiple audio formats](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/best-way-to-handle-a-folder-with-multiple-audio-formats/3040) It would be great if the audioac3 would work as a catch all for all audio formats. This would allow one uncompli…
Let’s see what happens 🙂
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