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.

Autor: Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@thenybble.de>

Datum: 2010-09-08 12:49:25 CEST

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