On 18/11/14 23:19, Rob wrote:
On 11/18/2014 04:27 AM, Kazakore wrote:
Well that was a surprise, to see that ffmpeg has been fully removed from
Ubuntu now. [...]
Anyway I have a little script for batch converting flacs to mp3s [...]
Hopefully you can help me modify
it to use Sox rather than ffmpeg.
Or you can just add real ffmpeg back in, as many of us have been doing for
about 3 years now. If they've finally removed their fake ffmpeg package,
that will actually make things less complicated (and maybe open the door to
restoring big-boy ffmpeg over the objections of the butthurt avconv
motherforkers).
https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg
The original script is from when I was running 12.04 and I did have
avconv replaced with the original ffmpeg then and I know I could have
gone that route again. But knowing there are other tools that can do the
job and not feeling quite settled with US14.04 at the moment (been
meaning to install and try out a couple of others for ages now but
finding the time while travelling can be hard) so have purposely kept
the repositories as vanilla as possible this time.
As for making it work without the find command, try something like this:
#!/bin/bash
for d in "$@"; do
if [ -d "$d" ] ; then
cd "${1}" && for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -f wav - | lame -b 320 -m
j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3"; done
elif [ -f "$d" ]; then
ffmpeg -i "$d" -f wav - | lame -b 320 -m j -q 0 - "${f%.flac}.mp3";
fi
done
Easy enough to put the find command right in the script, too, if you need
to do it recursively.
Recursive operation was a must for the first time I used it, now I have
processed my existing files it has become not so important.
But what's wrong with encoding to mp3 with ffmpeg directly? Personally, I
just do something like
ffmpeg -i "$1" -b 320 `basename $1 .flac`.mp3
Maybe I'm just being anal but I don't like the fact that standard 320
uses stereo of 160kbs per side, so I want to force joint stereo mode
(especially as a lot of my music is electronic with less stereo
separation than much live music) and set the quality to at least -h/-q2,
if not the -q0 I am currently using (and still seems to be quicker than
the flac>wav process and therefore unnoticeable in adding processing
time as it is piped in and converted as a stream.)
And when I want to copy tags over, I just use flac2mp3:
https://github.com/robinbowes/flac2mp3
Rob
_
Did consider looking for an existing tool so I can save the tags, as you
mention, but they rarely seem to give access to all the lame options I
desire and I thought this was a good script to help get my head at least
a little around Bash.
Dale.
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