audioconvert! the new super script to convet audio files!

[thetroublemaker]

hi gals, hi dudes!

this is my first post to this forum! i hope it's the right section!

i just made a script that converts audio files from wav, ogg, mp3, mpc, flac, ape or wma into wav, ogg, mp3, mpc, flac or ape! all with a right click of the mouse! that is, if you're usin' nautilus or rox. it was designed for nautilus, but it also works on rox, and of course as a standalone bash script. it uses zenity to show progress bars and ask questions

this is the freshmeat link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert/ there you will find the latest version, the cvs version, and the link to the homepage!

please test it and give me feedback on the homepage on how it works, point me out bugs, make suggestions on how to improve it, and please test it on fluxbox and such, to see if it can be installed as a file manager script there, too!

there is a documentation file in the cvs version

aac support comin' soon!

ciao!

edo

[sapo]

nice script... worked perfectly.. can i convert a whole folder with it?

[thetroublemaker]

Originally Posted by sapo nice script... worked perfectly.. can i convert a whole folder with it?

well, not quite. i mean, you can go into the folder, select all of the files, and then click on the script. it'll convert'em one by one. would that work out?

ciao!

edo

[dickohead]

That is someting I have been after for a long time!!! So many MP3's to convert to OGG!!!!

But just a suggestion... maybe a .deb package for Ubuntu?

[thetroublemaker]

Originally Posted by dickohead That is someting I have been after for a long time!!! So many MP3's to convert to OGG!!!! But just a suggestion... maybe a .deb package for Ubuntu?

i don't know how to make deb packages. i'm pretty sure it's not hard though. it's just that i'm a gentoo user. i made a thread about the script in here cause obivously the script is intended to work on any distribution, and i hope you ubuntu guys will enjoy it!

check the freshmeat page every once and a while, somethin' new might pop up in the next few days!

ciao!

edo

[MetalMusicAddict]

This is really cool. Cant wait to try it.

Originally Posted by dickohead That is someting I have been after for a long time!!! So many MP3's to convert to OGG!!!! But just a suggestion... maybe a .deb package for Ubuntu?

Honestly you shouldnt go from 1 lossy format to another.

[sapo]

Originally Posted by MetalMusicAddict This is really cool. Cant wait to try it. Honestly you shouldnt go from 1 lossy format to another.

maybe you could hack my car mp3 player to play ogg files?

Originally Posted by troublemaker well, not quite. i mean, you can go into the folder, select all of the files, and then click on the script. it'll convert'em one by one. would that work out?

but it asks too many questions

[notos]

using ogg instead of mp3 is gooood because ogg is free (as in speech - libre) and mp3 is a "closed" format

[Pulsie]

Originally Posted by MetalMusicAddict Honestly you shouldnt go from 1 lossy format to another.

Agreed - I'm all for Ogg Vorbis and use it to rip my own CDs, but transcoding existing mp3s to create poorer sounding Vorbis files really isn't helping the cause.

If you don't believe me, here it is, straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#transcode


Thanks for the script though; it's great for converting my FLAC files to Vorbis files

[sapo]

my little help

Brazilian portuguese translation

	###### Brazilian Portuguese ######
	pt-br* )
		title="audio convert "$version""
        	pleasesel="por favor, selecione pelo menos um arquivo."
	        noselec=""$title" converter arquivos de audio. "$pleasesel""
	        choix="extensão do arquivo de saída:"
	        warning="atenção"
	        proceed="já existe! sobrescrever?"
	        recur=""$title" não é possível converter pasta. "$pleasesel""
	        conversion="convertendo arquivo:"
	        ask_artist="digite o nome do artista:"
	        ask_album="digite o nome do album:"
	        ask_song="digite o nome da música:"
	        ask_track="digite o número da faixa:"
	        ask_quality="selecione a qualidade desejada:"
		confirmation="você quer converter"
		decoding="decodificando arquivo:"

hope it helps