30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
1:57 p.m.
Hi
I'm doing some conversion from flac to ogg in python and I wrap sox for
the actual conversion. I'm happy with it myself (I only run linux), but
the script has the potential for reaching non-linux users. It seems
there's no build-in (as in batteries included) way of converting from
flac to ogg in python across platforms. Is this the sad truth? If so,
what could be done to make the script work on the other platforms?
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Atte
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30 Dec
30 Dec
2:35 p.m.
torsdag 30 december 2010 14.57.32 skrev Atte André Jensen:
Hi
I'm doing some conversion from flac to ogg in python and I wrap sox for
the actual conversion. I'm happy with it myself (I only run linux), but
the script has the potential for reaching non-linux users. It seems
there's no build-in (as in batteries included) way of converting from
flac to ogg in python across platforms. Is this the sad truth? If so,
what could be done to make the script work on the other platforms?
The easiest way is probably to write the whole thing in Bash and let the
Windows user use msys (links in the bottom).
If you want Python, you probably have to have something that can make sure
that your Python script are guarantied to run by itself and also the related
helper programs and libraries in the Windows machine.
You can also write a shell script for Windows (develop it in freedos or
something if you can't use a Windows machine).
I was active in the Subversion project until ca. 2006 and for the Windows
installer I used Inno Setup (still going strong). Inno Setup have the ability
to check if packages exists and download and install missing programs if
needed, and it's easy to use. You can make Inno download Windows versioins of
Python, sox and anything anyway and place it in the same folder as your Python
Script and run it from there. Personally, I would use Perl for this because
it's easy to include a perl.exe (at least easy 10 years ago) i a Windows
distro and run scripts, but it might be easy on Python too.
Some links:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox-win/14.3.1/sox-14.3.1-
win32.exe/download
Good luck.
Jostein
3:05 p.m.
On 2010-12-30 15:35, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
If you want Python, you probably have to have
something that can make sure
that your Python script are guarantied to run by itself and also the related
helper programs and libraries in the Windows machine.
I want python. Actually the flac->ogg is just a small part of it, it
also parses some xml and unzips/zips and stuff...
You can also write a shell script for Windows (develop
it in freedos or
something if you can't use a Windows machine).
Hmmm...
Maybe what I need is knowledge of a free (beer) commandline tool under
windows and osx that can convert flac to ogg. Seems (now that I look)
that sox is available. Probably needs some tweeking of the os.system
call (that I can't really do by myself anyways, since I don't have those
OSs), but besides that, I'm almost where I'd like to be...
NB: I don't really have a problem with the user having to install python
(and sox) by themselves. My script checks if sox is available and
reports a clean error otherwise, so python is the only
tricky-for-newbies part missing...
Thanks for the help!
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Atte
http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk
2:58 p.m.
On 30 December 2010 21:57, Atte André Jensen <atte(a)email.dk> wrote:
Hi
I'm doing some conversion from flac to ogg in python and I wrap sox for the
actual conversion. I'm happy with it myself (I only run linux), but the
script has the potential for reaching non-linux users. It seems there's no
build-in (as in batteries included) way of converting from flac to ogg in
python across platforms. Is this the sad truth? If so, what could be done to
make the script work on the other platforms?
I just use py2exe :) Has worked ALL the time. There are sometimes
problems if you use the single executable option. But if you do it
standard (you can just zip it up with 7z+SFX) you'll be fine.
Caveat: big executables (python and libs included)
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3 p.m.
On 30 December 2010 22:57, Ray Rashif <schivmeister(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 30 December 2010 21:57, Atte André Jensen
<atte(a)email.dk> wrote:
Of course, win32 sox also included.
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Hi
I'm doing some conversion from flac to ogg in python and I wrap sox for the
actual conversion. I'm happy with it myself (I only run linux), but the
script has the potential for reaching non-linux users. It seems there's no
build-in (as in batteries included) way of converting from flac to ogg in
python across platforms. Is this the sad truth? If so, what could be done to
make the script work on the other platforms?
I just use py2exe :) Has worked ALL the time. There are sometimes
problems if you use the single executable option. But if you do it
standard (you can just zip it up with 7z+SFX) you'll be fine.
Caveat: big executables (python and libs included)
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