[LAU] Universal format convertor script?

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 17:49:55 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:

> There seems to be no end of script to convert everything else to OGG,
> which is nice, but not always practical. Does there exist a script to
> convert one arbitrary format to another (e.g flac to mp3, ogg to mp3,
> alac to flac, etc.)? The actual audio conversion is easy enough to
> achieve inside a for statement, but the tagging requires a little more
> legwork. Anyway, I will probably write such a script for myself sooner
> or later, but I thought I'd check here first.

Have you looked at sox? It's the Swiss Army Knife of audio conversion
tools, especially if you want to do batch processing.

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