[LAU] No ffmpeg, help convert script for Sox

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Hi,

On 18/11/2014 10:27, Kazakore wrote:
> Well that was a surprise, to see that ffmpeg has been fully removed from
> Ubuntu now.

[...]

>
> Anyway I have a little script for batch converting flacs to mp3s as I am
> rather space conscience while travelling and my mp3 player never liked
> ogg. My Bash skills are near zero and what I have working is messy from
> searching on the internet for a solution. Hopefully you can help me
> modify it to use Sox rather than ffmpeg.

For this use case you can probably simply pipe flac into lame like this:

for f in *.flac;do flac -d -c "$f" | \
lame -b 320k -m j -q 0 - $(basename $f .flac).mp3;done

Or am I missing something?

Lorenzo.

  (And possibly make it so I can
> simply call the command, rather than the more complex command I have to
> use currently.)
>
> To start the process I currently use this command in the terminal:
> find  -type d -exec ~/bin/flac2mp3 "{}" \;
>
> The previously working contents of flac2mp3 was:
> #!/bin/bash
> if [ -d "${1}" ] ; then
>    cd "${1}" && for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -f wav - | lame -b
> 320 -m j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done
> fi
>
> I tried quickly to edit.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> if [ -d "${1}" ] ; then
>    cd "${1}" && for f in *.flac; do sox "$f" -b 16 "${f%.flac}.wav" - |
> lame -b 320 -m j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done
> fi
>
> Seems to think the .wav is an incoming file for concatenation.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> if [ -d "${1}" ] ; then
>    cd "${1}" && for f in *.flac; do sox "$f" -b 16 "${f%.flac}.wav" |
> lame -b 320 -m j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done
> fi
>
> Gives me all the wav files converted but doesn't then pass them onto the
> lame section of the command.
>
>
> I'm sure this must be really simple! (As much having it all in one
> single script called by just executing the file!)
>
>
> Regards, Dale.
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