User:PBryan/flac2mp3

flac2mp3

Description

The flac2mp3 script recursively walks a directory containing FLAC files and transcodes to MP3 format, en masse. Features:

• incremental (non-overwrite) to only transcode only newly found FLAC files
• spawns multiple processes to allow multiple concurrent encodings to be performed
• fairly substantial mapping from Vorbis-style comments in FLAC to MP3 frames

Dependencies

• Getopt-ArgvFile module (Ubuntu package: libgetopt-argvfile-perl)
• Parallel-ForkManager module (Ubuntu package: libparallel-forkmanager-perl)
• Sys-CPU Perl module (Ubuntu package: libsys-cpu-perl)
• flac and metaflac utilities (Ubuntu package: flac)
• lame utility (Ubuntu package: lame)
• id3v2 utility (Ubuntu package: id3v2)

Notes

• This script is tested on Ubuntu 8.10; mileage may vary on other platforms.

Download

• Download flac2vorbis-0.9

License

• This script is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later.

Usage

Usage: flac2mp3 [options] flac_dir [mp3_dir]

Options

• Option	Description	Default
  --encopts=options	Options to pass to encoder.	--preset standard --noreplaygain
  --flac=program	Program to decode extracted audio from FLAC format	flac
  --help	Display this help message.
  --lame=program	Program to encode to MP3 format.	lame
  --metaflac=program	Program to get metadata from FLAC files.	metaflac
  --[no]overwrite	Overwrite previous extract of tracks.	nooverwrite
  --processes=number	Number of concurrent encoder processes	number of CPUs
  --quiet	Quiet operation, no screen output.
  --verbose	Verbose output of progress information.

Configuration file

You can store persistent command-line options in a file called .flac2mp3 in your home directory. They will be read as defaults prior to processing any passed command-line options.

Changelog

0.9 (2009-01-07)

• initial version released to MusicBrainz