Convert all to mp3
An audio file converter
I like music. And my music arrives in a variety of formats, not all playable by the allmighty rockbox. Also, I don't want my collection to be a jumble of different file formats.
All the converter's I've tried to date have been unsatisfactory. There were some nice ones (like soundconverter, a gnome tool I think), but most of them were unusable.
So, what does all2mp3.sh have that others don't?
Features:
- Converts everything to mp3 that ffmpeg can read. Even that accursed monkey's audio.
- Doesn't annoy you with fancy dialogues
- Keeps tags that mutagen-identify can read out
- Works
- Is portable (written in bash)
- Allows you to shoot your own foot.
Where from:
As always, get it from my git repository at The nybble.
Todos:
I would welcome support for additional tag types that mutagen doesn't support. Also, some sort of integrity checking of the resulting mp3 would be nice.
Maybe
I'll maybe some time do a rewrite of the thing in python. But I had severe problems with the process control (2 processes running over a pipe, both hanging when there is no input, dying when something is wrong, two return codes etc… it was a mess). I'll try again sometime if all2mp3.sh doesn't cut it anymore.