3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
5:58 p.m.
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 16:39 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
hi,
just starting to use ardour2 for production (thanks everyone for the
help) and running into a little frustration with the mp3 files from my
recorder. ardour of course doesn't import from mp3; I can, I suppose,
convert the files to mp3 one at a time when I want to, but I wonder if
there's a more fluid way of e.g. converting files when they're uploaded,
or at least converting all files in a particular folder or something.
are there other people out there who have to deal with a similar
situation?
this is an area where, unlike all proprietary DAWs, we'd prefer you to
leverage the power of the platform you are running Ardour on.
for example, suppose you have a program called mp3towave and a directory
full of mp3 files, you can create a script that looks like this:
------- cut here ------------
#!/bin/sh
for file in $*
do
mp3towave $file
done
------- and here -------------
the beauty of this approach is that although today you "just" want to do
mp3 conversion, next week, you can adapt this to something else. for
example:
* convert them to aiff instead
* convert and resample them
* convert them into mono files, 2 per mp3 file
* rename them all based on some rule
* convert ogg/vorbis files instead
* convert AAC files instead
* convert them and filter them as well
and so on. if we built this into Ardour, you'd end up with a huge mass
of code duplicating the cool functionality that Unix has offered you for
30 years or more ;)
let me know how this looks. i have not discussed specific tools you
could use for the conversion since it sounds as if you have that
covered.
--p