[LAU] Universal format convertor script?

[S. Massy]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 08:22:44PM -0200, A. C. Censi wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, S. Massy wrote:
> >
> >
> > My main problem is not so much the conversion, as I said, but the tags.
> > I used not to care about them, but it seems audio players on mobile
> > devices rely more and more heavily on them these days, making it very
> > painful to play untagged albums, hence my renewed interest in a
> > full-blown script.
> >
> 
> There ia program on Sourceforge that seems to do what you want, on command
> line:
> http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one
> format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF,
> CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, M4A, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, MMF, MP2, MP3,
> MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2, SF,
> SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also convert
> audio from the following video formats: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG,
> AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A
> CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation
> for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions
> for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are also provided.
Works very well for my application! Only thing is, it has a fair amount
of perl dependencies (CPAN modules), but that's minor, given how many
formats are handled and how flexibly. Definitely something to consider.
Cheers,
S.M.