for{
for i in *.mkv;
do name=`echo "$i" | cut -d'.' -f1`
echo "$name"
ffmpeg -i "$i" "${name}.mp3"
done
for i in *.mp4;
do name=`echo "$i" | cut -d'.' -f1`
echo "$name"
ffmpeg -i "$i" "${name}.mp3"
done
for i in *.webm;
do name=`echo "$i" | cut -d'.' -f1`
echo "$name"
ffmpeg -i "$i" "${name}.mp3"
done}
done
Ended up with this. Worked, till the last file, and failed on the extra done. IDK shit about bash I just tried to make it check through all of the listed formats, which is what I assume it did.
At the moment I am zeroing out my ipod’s music partition as rhythmbox doesn’t know how to do math and tells me my ipod will run out of its 64GB of space on only 10GB of music.
Yeah whatever.
This is only a highlight of the problems in linux in general but its not like anyone’ll fix it unless I do it myself.
For the record, if you manage your library with beets, it has a built in transcoding feature which will keep everything organized and tagged properly, and let’s you properly specify all kinds of processing options, including output directory.
I wonder hows the apple eco system as far as transferring music goes these days? Back when I had an ipod I was basically hard locked into using itunes and the file formats it accepted to get songs onto it.
I think it’s even worse now that it’s ipod touch and iphone. Back in the day, you could set it up to show up as a USB disk and just throw MP3s on it. Dunno that it’s the same these days.
Well they basically dumped itunes. Spotify is better anyways for most people nowadays. And the better alternatives are all out there, just most people scoff at you if you don’t have a phone.
Unfortunately, I think most people are a bit dense putting everything on their phone. Its kinda like having your office in your bedroom. Your work and relax are in the same space.
No. Separate that shit. I want my music, not fucking aunt becky calling me 40 times a day or whatever dumb shit.
Spotify is not an alternative to itunes though. Its an alternative to other streaming services. I also have all my music on my phone. I also have my own music collection. If you dont want to deal with it its perfectly valid to have a spotify subscription instead. I just dont wanna get into the situation where song x is not on spotify and I would need another streaming service to listen to it. Its like when game of thrones came out. Who on earth was using HBOs streaming service? Also what do I do when spotify goes away someday? I can use another one, but there goes all my playlists too.
I dont personally benefit much from the “i can listen to music without an internet connection” argument. But sometimes I do. It also eats less battery to play local songs.
But for me the bigger motivation to maintain my own music collection is just the long term preservation of the songs I listen to and the basically 100% guarantee that every song that gets released that I want I will have a way to get to without jumping ship to another service.
I argue about this with my sister all the time. She just doesn’t care. Youtube will be there when spotify dies, is her opinion. Its just spotify is slightly more convenient, even if its 12 bucks a month.
Michigan.
I do constantly. I get all my music that I want to listen to and put it in one place, then don’t have to pay for data? Hell yeah! The unfortunate part of streaming services, for me at least, is I mostly use them to listen to music I don’t even want to bother stealing, let alone buying. So, funnily enough, its mostly hip hop. I love scarlxrd, I’m not buying his albums in flac. A that’d ruin the sound, B he has too many fucking albums.
Same for most hip hop artists I listen to. I always get the whole discography of an artist I like, and hopefully in flac. I can transcode it to what device I need to from there.
I have all the gorillaz albums, sunny day real estate, paramore, and a bunch more. They all have 6-10 albums. Any playlist I add suicideboys to on spotify and just holy fuck its every other song.
If you have a Windows machine with lots of power to do this fast I suggest you to use BatchEncoder. I used it to transcode from WAV to MP3 VBR hours and hours of lecture recordings and working with one thread per track really works wonderfully and very fast.
P.S. it’s also dumb easy to use. Drop in the tracks, choose a destination folder, a format and just click start.
This is going to need some work, but this is what I use to convert my music to atrac to burn to my MiniDisc players. Yeah, old school. It relies on your music having the proper name right now.
I never finished plumbing the parts that write the tags to the output since the MD cannot store those anyway. Eventually, I will finish the script that will convert to one format or another and can write to MD based on some flags. Hopefully there is noting in here to dox me.
just work on your bash-fu and you can make this do what it wants. I have some better scripts that actually read a file for flags that I use to convert videos and/or make audio out of the videos but I am at work right now and am not allowed to VPN to my home because gov’t.
#!/bin/bash
#send_to_MiniDisc.sh
netmdcli_NetMD="/home/$USER/Software/code/linux-minidisc/master_-_netmd_fix_fork_vuori_-_01112019/netmdcli/"
netmdcli_HiMD="/home/$USER/Software/code/linux-minidisc/master_-_himd_fix_fork_glaubitz_-_01112019/netmdcli/"
netmdcliOptions="netmdcli -v send"
tempDir="/home/$USER/Music/temp/rip2MD/"
sourceDir="/home/$USER/Music/temp/"
atracEncoder='/home/$USER/Software/code/linux-minidisc/atracdenc_-_master_-_01122019/test/src/atracdenc'
atracVersion="atrac3"
atracOptions="-e"
fileName=""
noExtension=""
fileExtension=""
NetMDVersion="NetMD"
sleepTime=5
SongArtist=""
SongAlbum=""
SongTitle=""
CurrentGroup=""
SongList=""
SourceFormatType=""
CurrentFormatType=""
#FFProbe
FFProbeGetFormatType="ffprobe -v quiet -show_entries stream=codec_name -select_streams a -print_format default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1"
#FFMPEGOptions
FFMPEGInputOptions="-y -hide_banner -v error"
FFMPEGOutputOptions="-filter aresample=44100 -acodec pcm_s16le"
#########Function Definitions################
function getArtist {}
function getAlbum {}
function getTitle {}
function getSongList {}
function getFormatType
{
"$FFProbeGetFormatType"
}
function setGroup {}
function setFormatType {}
function createSongList {}
#######End Function Definitions##############
#Ask for the source directory.
printf "\nWhich music folder to work from?\n"
read tempString
if [ -d "$tempString" ];then
sourceDir="$tempString"
else
printf "\nNo folder exists at \"$tempString\".\nExiting program.\n\n"
exit
fi
#Determine if an argument was passed on the command line.
if [ -n "$*" ];then
#Set file extension and atrac version appropriately.
for arg in $@;do
if [ "$arg" = "--atrac1" ];then
atracVersion="atrac1"
fileExtension="aea"
atracOptions="$atracOptions $atracVersion"
elif [ "$arg" = "--atrac3" ];then
atracVersion="atrac3"
fileExtension="oma"
atracOptions="$atracOptions $atracVersion"
elif [ "$arg" = "--HiMD" ];then
NetMDVersion="HiMD"
fi
done
fi #End command line argument check
#If no valid command line argument was passed...
if [ -z "$fileExtension" ];then
#then default to look at the atracVersion variable. Set file extension and atrac version appropriately.
if [ "$atracVersion" = "atrac1" ];then
fileExtension="aea"
atracOptions="$atracOptions $atracVersion"
elif [ "$atracVersion" = "atrac3" ];then
fileExtension="oma"
atracOptions="$atracOptions $atracVersion"
#If nothig is configured then output mini help.
else
echo "\tInvalid configuration.\n\tProper commands are --atrac1 or --atrac3."
return 1
fi #End default configuration check
fi #End invalid command line argument check
echo "\tProceeding to rip as $atracVersion, library $NetMDVersion!"
##Setup working directory.
if [ ! -d "$tempDir" ];then
mkdir -p "$tempDir"
fi
#Pull the artist and the ablum from the file
##Follow the atrac1 sequence
if [ "$atracVersion" = "atrac1" ];then
for file in "$sourceDir"/*."mp3" "$sourceDir"/*."ogg" "$sourceDir"/*."m4a" "$sourceDir"/*."wav" "$sourceDir"/*."opus";do
#Determine if file exists.
if [ -f "$file" ];then
#Get the file name minus the absolute path of $file
fileName="$(echo "$(basename "$file")"| cut -f 1 -d '.')"
formatExtension="$(echo "$(basename "$file")"| cut -f 2 -d '.')"
# echo "\tConverting $file to $tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension ..."
# $atracEncoder $atracOptions -i "$file" -o "$tempDir$fileName.$atracVersion.$fileExtension" #Can only convert 44.1khz PCM 16bit WAV Files.
#Perform format conversion to PCM WAV
echo "\tConverting $file into a WAV file..."
ffmpeg $FFMPEGInputOptions -i "$file" $FFMPEGOutputOptions "$tempDir$fileName.wav" #FFMPEG seems to have trouble placing atrac1 in WAV. Just convert to PCM for now.
echo "\tUploading "$fileName".wav to MiniDisc recorder..."
#Since we are sending PCM WAV, let player convert. Transfer is about 2x (343 kB/s). Works with both forks.
if [ "$NetMDVersion" = "NetMD" ];then
$netmdcli_NetMD$netmdcliOptions "$tempDir$fileName.wav" "$fileName"
sleep $sleepTime
elif [ "$NetMDVersion" = "HiMD" ];then
$netmdcli_HiMD$netmdcliOptions "$tempDir$fileName.wav" "$fileName"
sleep $sleepTime
fi
fi
done
##Follow atrac3 (MDLP:LP2) sequence
elif [ "$atracVersion" = "atrac3" ];then
for file in "$sourceDir"/*."mp3" "$sourceDir"/*."ogg" "$sourceDir"/*."m4a" "$sourceDir"/*."wav" "$sourceDir"/*."opus";do
#Determine if file exists.
if [ -f "$file" ];then
#Get the file name minus the absolute path of $file
fileName="$(echo "$(basename "$file")"| cut -f 1 -d '.')"
formatExtension="$(echo "$(basename "$file")"| cut -f 1 -d '.')"
#Perform format conversion to PCM WAV
echo "\tConverting $file into a WAV file..."
ffmpeg $FFMPEGInputOptions -i "$file" $FFMPEGOutputOptions "$tempDir$fileName.wav" #FFMPEG seems to have trouble placing atrac1 in WAV. Just convert to PCM for now.
#Now encode to LP2 using the atrac encoder
echo "\tConverting $tempDir$fileName.wav to $tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension ..."
$atracEncoder $atracOptions -i "$tempDir$fileName.wav" -o "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension"
echo "\tPlacing $tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension into a WAV container..."
ffmpeg $FFMPEGInputOptions -i "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension" -c:a copy "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension.wav"
echo "\tUploading "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension.wav" to MiniDisc recorder..."
#Transfer speed is about 18.25x (295 kB/s). Again this is MDLP2. LP4 is not yet working.
if [ "$NetMDVersion" = "NetMD" ];then
$netmdcli_NetMD$netmdcliOptions "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension.wav" "$fileName"
sleep $sleepTime
elif [ "$NetMDVersion" = "HiMD" ];then #This only produces noise when uploading oma/atrac3 files in a WAV container, if it works at all. Use the NetMD fork.
$netmdcli_HiMD$netmdcliOptions "$tempDir$fileName.$fileExtension.wav" "$fileName"
sleep $sleepTime
fi
fi
done
fi
#remove the rip2MD directory.
rm -R $tempDir
#Show disc contents
if [ "$NetMDVersion" = "NetMD" ];then
$netmdcli_NetMDnetmdcli
sleep 2
elif [ "$NetMDVersion" = "HiMD" ];then
$netmdcli_HiMDnetmdcli
sleep 2
fi
In Windows I use FFmpeg in a for batch loop in cmd.exe.
for /r C:\Users\admin\Desktop\filestotranscode\ %a in (*.wav) do ffmpeg -i -vn -sn -c:a libopus -vbr on -b:a 160k -compression_level 10 -map_metadata 0 -threads 0 “%a” “%~pa%~na.opus”
Creates a 160k opus file.
Just need to change the *.wav for each extension you have.
I assume bash should be able to do something similar.
$arg is a built in bash variable for command line arguments.
$USER is a global *nix variable for the user running the bash script.
$* is bash string manipulation shorthand. Everything else is custom.
I have been getting killed at work and working extra long hours. I will try to upload my other script that looks at Tags directly. Again these are all works in progress to be the respective one script to rule them all, but right now they do what they need to do so I have been lazy to finish them and clean them up.
Bash is more commonly widespread but some systems use old bash in the enterprise realm.
But LISP is good. If you want to get into something that is also good for scripting, look into LUA. It just makes sense (to me at least). But I had been getting back into bash because, not all sites support perl and perl gets just as bad of a rap as ruby. I am versed in all of the old tools that still make the world go round. As a result, by bash-fu has a lot of perl for ease us string manipulation. If you are using bash from the last 2 years, there have been some really good improvements to help with stuff like that so you don’t need to invoke sed or awk, but the syntax is a little head scratchy at times.
My problem was existing Lua code that I did not write. The only thing I needed was to just do a visual inspection of the table / array a function returned.
To return to topic:
If you need FLAC there is a CUDA/OpenCL implementation of a FLAC encoder. I tried it but decided that HDDs are cheap enough to just store music in .wav like the madman I am.