This integrates tools and knowledges to convert WeChat audio into mp3 format for storage purpose (MacOS). With the following instruction, you may easily save WeChat audio messages from your iPhone/Mac in a friendlier format.
For simplicity, the whole process will be shown as below.
Say what the steps will be
- Install FFmpeg Homebrew is recommended for installation
brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx
- Install silk-v3-decoder
git clone https://github.com/kn007/silk-v3-decoder.git
- Locate the route for certain audio message on your Mac You may convert audio messages ether from dialogues or from your favorite When you navigate to
/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.tencent.xinWeChat/Data/Library/Application Support/com.tencent.xinWeChat/2.0b4.0.9
you will see one or more encoded string, each of which stands for an account that has been logged into your machine. Try figuring which one is your account(you are on your own this time). Then you may navigete into it and select ether Favorites or Message, and following the route you will get to see the silk files, which are the files we will convert thereafter.
- Start converting Learning from kn007, you may: Convert one file at a time
sh converter.sh input_folder output_folder flag(format)
or Convert in batches
sh converter.sh input ouput mp3