Re: [LAU] No ffmpeg, help convert script for Sox

On 18/11/14 18:33, F. Silvain wrote: Flac wasn't installed so I have just done so and get this error. ERROR: -o/--output-name cannot be used with multiple files Slight adjustment and I can get it to generate the wav files, same as with Sox, but then it stops... And a bit more reading of Help and think I have it. Also needed the send to stdout flag (-c) set, rather than writing to file. #!/bin/bash if [ -d "${1}" ] ; then cd "${1}" && for f in *.flac; do flac -d -c "$f" - | lame -b 320 -m j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done fi Strangely it now shows me progress of flac conversion (IE percentage complete) but not the lame/mp3. Sure it used to be the other way around. But it does inform me it passes it on to LAME and the settings. Anybody know what the 4.4x part relates to? Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (4.4x) 320 kbps qval=0 As to why I initially chose Sox. I knew it was installed and is a very powerful and useful program to learn from what I understand, so thought if it is suitable for the job it would be one worth attempting to achieve it with. I have known it be used at companies I have worked for to transcode, or more often combine and mix down audio streams. A regular example would be taking the four audio channels you get on most professional camcorders and many location recorders and mixing them down to two channels for normal use. Therefore it is a tool I would like to familiarise myself with more :-) Anyway that appears to have completed now and the mp3s are sounding fine (well perfectly acceptable to my ears from my laptop at least.) Thanks for the pointer, and I'll look to see if there is a stdout option for Sox as guess that is what was needed there too :) Dale.