14 Nov
2012
14 Nov
'12
6:35 p.m.
Hello,
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.
Cheers,
S.M.
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14 Nov
14 Nov
6:37 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, S. Massy wrote:
Hello,
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.
Do you hate GUIs, or are you just planning to run it on a server?
Because there are quite a few reasonable converters with GTK+ and QT UI.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
6:53 p.m.
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:37 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, S. Massy wrote:
He is blind.
Hello,
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.
Do you hate GUIs, or are you just planning to run it on a server?
Because there are quite a few reasonable converters with GTK+ and QT UI. 
6:50 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, S. Massy <lists(a)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.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
6:50 p.m.
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 12:35 -0500, S. Massy wrote:
Hello,
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.
Cheers,
S.M.
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/audio-convert/
is a bash script that seems to do this for Nautilus, but why not using
it without Nautilus? I didn't take a look if you need to rewrite much.
6:54 p.m.
On 14 November 2012 at 12:35, "S. Massy" <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
Hello,
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.
Cheers,
S.M.
How well does sndfile-convert (part of libsndfile-progs) do with
tag conversion?
G'luck....
--
Kevin
7:03 p.m.
Hi!
As far as I remember, there wasn't much in the way of tag
importing/exporting with the sndfile utils.
Massy: I once started writing a script, but in the end there was other work.
I should still have the file. As far as I remember, I also put in some
comments and tried to organise it strictly. If you're interested, I can dig
and upload it to my server?
Warm regards
Julien
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http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html
8:57 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:03:42PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
Hi!
As far as I remember, there wasn't much in the way of tag
importing/exporting with the sndfile utils.
Massy: I once started writing a script, but in the end there was
other work. I should still have the file. As far as I remember, I
also put in some comments and tried to organise it strictly. If
you're interested, I can dig and upload it to my server?
Thanks to those who
responded. Sure, Julien, that would be nice and could be a
good starting point.
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.
Cheers,
S.M.
16 Nov
16 Nov
5:04 p.m.
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:57:52 -0500
From: lists(a)wolfdream.ca
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Universal format convertor script?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:03:42PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
This is sadly true, and while it wont help for your phone or other devices as far as mp3
players themselves go I've taken to using Sandisk Sansa for my last few. All the ones
I've owned have allowed browsing and playing via file locations (folders etc) and have
a fair enough sound quality (two of my main requisites.)
http://www.sandisk.com/products/music-video-players/
Couple that with the fact most of them appear to be supported by the Rockbox project, if
the default firmware is not to your liking you can change it to a community made one, is
another massive bonus.
http://www.rockbox.org/
(Sorry if that's going offtopic a bit.)
Hi!
As far as I remember, there wasn't much in the way of tag
importing/exporting with the sndfile utils.
Massy: I once started writing a script, but in the end there was
other work. I should still have the file. As far as I remember, I
also put in some comments and tried to organise it strictly. If
you're interested, I can dig and upload it to my server?
Thanks to those who
responded. Sure, Julien, that would be nice and could be a
good starting point.
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.
Cheers,
S.M.
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