On 05/25/2012 11:32 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> My script for creating MP3 files from FLAC files has broken in Fedora
> 17. Specifically, tags with accented characters are getting truncated
> when I try to write them as UTF-16LE (which seems to be what most
> players expect). The script, which I am attaching, worked fine when I
> last used it in January back in January (presumably on Fedora 16).
New, working script attached for posterity.
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Ian Pilcher arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx
"If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first."
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#!/bin/bash
FLAC_FILE="$1"
MP3_FILE="$2"
ABSOLUTE_FLAC_FILE=`readlink -m "$FLAC_FILE"`
ART_FILE="${ABSOLUTE_FLAC_FILE%/*}/front.jpg"
TITLE=`metaflac --show-tag=title "$FLAC_FILE" | sed 's/^title=//'`
ARTIST=`metaflac --show-tag=artist "$FLAC_FILE" | sed 's/^artist=//'`
GENRE=`metaflac --show-tag=genre "$FLAC_FILE" | sed 's/^genre=//'`
ALBUM=`metaflac --show-tag=album "$FLAC_FILE" | sed 's/^album=//'`
TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac --show-tag=tracknumber "$FLAC_FILE" | sed 's/^tracknumber=//'`
# It doesn't seem to be possible to store UTF-16 strings in Bash variables, and LAME doesn't seem
# to be able to handle UTF-16 tags at all anymore. :-(
if [ -f "$ART_FILE" ]; then
flac -dc "$FLAC_FILE" | lame -V0 --ti "$ART_FILE" - "$MP3_FILE"
else
flac -dc "$FLAC_FILE" | lame -V0 - "$MP3_FILE"
fi
id3v2 -t "`echo $TITLE | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE`" \
-a "`echo $ARTIST | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE`" \
-g "`echo $GENRE | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE`" \
-A "`echo $ALBUM | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE`" \
-T "$TRACKNUMBER" "$MP3_FILE"
id3v2 -s "$MP3_FILE"
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