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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy |
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> of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories |
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> using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 20000 |
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> files so I need the converted structure to replicate the original. |
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> Most likely the tool has to be very tolerant of file naming, unicode, |
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> etc., as there are likely to be any number of strange things in there. |
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> |
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> Possibly something in perl or, for the likes of me, even something GUI based. |
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I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3 |
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encoder with suboptimal default settings. I would write a script |
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myself. For flac decoding use (of course) media-libs/flac; for mp3 |
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encoding, media-sound/lame. You can probably chain them in a pipe, |
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using flac -dc infile.flac | mp3lame <lameopts> - outfile.mp3 . Read |
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lame's man page and write a shell (or perhaps python/perl) script. |
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