Post by Paul KaplanAny recommendations for a program to convert a bunch of flac audio
files to mp3 format?
This is the script I use:
#!/bin/bash
METAFLAC=/usr/bin/metaflac
LAME=/usr/bin/lame
LAME_OPTS="--preset extreme --add-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors"
FLAC=/usr/bin/flac
function usage
{
echo $0 flac1 [flac2] [flac3] ...
exit 1
}
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
usage
fi
for file in "$@"; do
file "$file" | grep FLAC
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
ARTIST=`metaflac --show-tag=ARTIST "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
ALBUM=`metaflac --show-tag=ALBUM "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
TITLE=`metaflac --show-tag=TITLE "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
DATE=`metaflac --show-tag=DATE "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
GENRE=`metaflac --show-tag=GENRE "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
TRACK=`metaflac --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER "$file" | cut -d'=' -f2`
mp3file=`basename "$file" flac`
flac -d -c "$file" | lame $LAME_OPTS --tt "$TITLE" --ta "$ARTIST" --tl "$ALBUM" --ty "$DATE" --tn "$TRACK" --tg "$GENRE" - "${mp3file}mp3"
fi
done
exit 0
Probably someone who can optimize the script
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John L. Fjellstad
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