Batch music convert

[TAKTAK]

Righty...

Seeing as though HEXUS is like yahoo answers, except you get worthwhile answers...

I have another question...

I need to convert my entire library to MP3 (*sigh*), it's currently a mix of MP3, FLAC, WMA and god knows what else.

However, some of the MP3s need reconverting as whatever codec was used, my MP3 player (Chinese goodness...) doesn't like them, some are fine, but i have whole albums missing that it just doesn't like.

So basically i need a batch converter that will convert everything, including the MP3s to MP3, doesn't need to be amazing quality as it's only for use in my car which has atrocious speakers anyway...

There's around 30GB that need doing, any ideas?

Preferably something i can set and forget while it crunches away.

Thanking you

[Repressor]

http://www.bonkenc.org/

I used this...does take a while with a P4 though

It's worth a try if you find nothing else..

[Funkstar]

I use dbPoweramp for all my ripping and transcoding. Makes use of my quad core nicely

I'm not sure if you can use the batch converter without paying for it though.

Another app to look at is FooBar2000, can do all that, but the interface isn't as nice (i'm lazy and don't like learning new apps).

[peterb]

If you are using linux...

There is a fairly simple one line command that will do it (essentially a mini-sctript that calls up lame). But I'd have to look it up at the weekend and post it back here. basically takes a directory of (say) .wav files and writes them back as .mp3 files (or using a different codec, to whatever format you want)

[TAKTAK]

If you are using linux...

There is a fairly simple one line command that will do it (essentially a mini-sctript that calls up lame). But I'd have to look it up at the weekend and post it back here. basically takes a directory of (say) .wav files and writes them back as .mp3 files (or using a different codec, to whatever format you want)

That sounds like just the ticket, i'm sure i can find a liveCD hanging around here somewhere

Cheers

Aslong as it leaves things in the same directory structure it should be perfect (Separated by Initial - Artist - Album, so some have quite a few subdirectories)

[peterb]

I'll dig out the line this weekend - but you may have to tinker with it for different bit rates, encoding etrc. Meanwhile you may want to look at this...

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/MP3-CD-Burning/

Although this is concerned with burning CDs - the lines that deal with format, file extension, bit rate conversion are all relevant.

BTW, not all distros include the LAME codec (or any other mp3 codec) because of patent issues (mp3 is a proprietary format, unlike ogg-Vorbis, which is open, so you may have to download/install it.

[fuddam]

Super - www.erightsoft.com is freeware

[jim]

I've used Switch before, by NCH, to convert hundreds of MP3s before - it's based on plugins so you'd probably need to grab one for FLAC and so on but it does work very well in my experience.

Super is an excellent video converter - I've never used it for MP3 but I can believe it works well.

[oolon]

I don't think lame many not be able to do decode every file format for use as input, I believe it expects a wav, mp3 or AIFF file as the input, so you might need a script to decode those WMA files. For flac you can use flac --decode in a pipe to lame.

[Singh400]

I use GoldWave here.

[abaxas]

http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/

Interesting way of on the fly transcoding of FLAC>mp3.

[Stringent]

What about if your ripped library (wmv or whatever) has DRM? Does it convert the DRM information to the MP3 as well, or does it strip it?

[peterb]

As promised:

batch convrt .wav to .mp3 (using lame)

for i in 8.wav do j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/\.wav/.mp3'` ; lame -b 192 $i $j; done;

Effectively 3 lines of code (separated by ; ) but types on one command line. lame is a decoder as well. so by altering the lame options you could convert .mp3 to wav and then re-encode using flac or ofgg-vorbis - just change the relevant bits of code accordingly.

eg

for i in *.wav; do oggenc -b 192 $i; done;

Note that that is a destructive write - it will re-encode the .wav files, without changing the name (or extension) - unlike the first example which changes the extension, and leaves the original in place.

(Examples taken from Linux Multimedia Hacks - Kyle Rankin - O'Reilly Publishing 2006 - ISBN 36920 10076)

[TAKTAK]

As promised:

batch convrt .wav to .mp3 (using lame)

for i in 8.wav do j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/\.wav/.mp3'` ; lame -b 192 $i $j; done;

Effectively 3 lines of code (separated by ; ) but types on one command line. lame is a decoder as well. so by altering the lame options you could convert .mp3 to wav and then re-encode using flac or ofgg-vorbis - just change the relevant bits of code accordingly.

eg

for i in *.wav; do oggenc -b 192 $i; done;

Note that that is a destructive write - it will re-encode the .wav files, without changing the name (or extension) - unlike the first example which changes the extension, and leaves the original in place.

(Examples taken from Linux Multimedia Hacks - Kyle Rankin - O'Reilly Publishing 2006 - ISBN 36920 10076)

Thankyou muchly

[Behemoth]

Foobar 2000 can do this with a few plugins.