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Batch Converting Between Formats?

Posted by Cliff on from the content-with-an-identity-crisis dept.

Yort asks: "With the Christmas season upon us, it's time to dust off the Yuletide music. However, I'm finding once again this year that I'm needing to re-rip all my CDs to fit the format-of-the-year. Ogg Vorbis for my portable, MP3 for the Tivo, WMA and AAC for sharing with co-workers... Argh! So, I've decided it's time to end the madness: Hard drives are cheap, so I'm going to rip all my music once-and-for-all to a lossless format (I'm choosing FLAC at this point), then just batch convert to whatever format I need. I know I'm hardly the first one to think of this, but I've looked around and haven't found much in the way of good OSS tools for this sort of thing. Any recommendations, or do I have to write one myself?"

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  1. Makefile by xFallenAngel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You could actually write a makefile that utilizes the separate converters and outputs as wanted...

    make ogg
    make mp3
    make wma
    make rip

    Something alont those lines...I'll leave the Makefile as an excersize for the reader :)

  2. Cool idea by megaversal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I always thought this was a cool idea: http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/

    Though not updated in a long while, I think you could use this to automatically convert your flac files to an "mp3 share" and the files would be automatically transcoded to mp3 on the fly as you viewed the Samba share. Just make additional shares for additional file types.

    No need to batch process, whatever you want is done on the fly.

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