On 09/03/16 18:04, Gordon Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 17:31 +0000, Peter Alefounder wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all for the comments. I still think something I could use
>> from the command line would be easier - a simple shell script loop.
>
> Did you look further at sox for conversion?
>
> Chris Liddell said he used it to resample, but it does many more things
> than that.
>
> You may well find that the following just works:
>
> sox mytrack.flac mytrack.mp3
>
> If not, try deliberately converting in two stages:
>
> sox mytrack.flac mytrack.wav
> sox mytrack.wav mytrack.mp3
>
> That would allow you to verify that the .wav itself is sensible.
Historically, not many distros package sox with MP3 support 'cause of
the patent license issues - I don't know if that's changed much, these days.
I tend to use "lame" directly because, well, I've been doing this kind
of stuff for a while, and back then, lame was the only choice.....
And I tend to use "flac" for flacs, just because....
--
Please post to: Hampshire@???
Web Interface:
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
LUG URL:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk
--------------------------------------------------------------
