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Gaucho

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Simple audio conversion via Perl Audio Conveter

Archiving this, it's from 2011...

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1826641

Install pacpl. Rename all folders you're converting so they have no spaces.

Via a terminal, cd into the music folder you wish to convert and convert it. In this case, FLAC to mp3...

cd /home/rachel/Downloads/Police/1980-ZenyattaMondatta[2003Remaster]/

pacpl -t mp3 --bitrate 192 -r *.flac

Remove the flac files (after copying them somewhere else)...

rm *.flac

For more info...

man pacpl

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ohnonot

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Re: Simple audio conversion via Perl Audio Conveter

if it's from 2011, what does it use internally? ffmpeg?

johnraff

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Re: Simple audio conversion via Perl Audio Conveter

I used pacpl quite a bit for a while, some years ago, and it was very handy, and powerful. While it can use ffmeg it's very flexible about {de,en}coders.

These days I find ffmpeg by itself does the job for the conversions I want to do. @ohnonot, do you have some other preferred library in 2019?

Last edited by johnraff (2019-05-26 07:12:39)

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ohnonot

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Re: Simple audio conversion via Perl Audio Conveter

@ohnonot, do you have some other preferred library in 2019?

i have a few scripts written around ffmpeg.
they used to work well for my needs, but I haven't tested for a while.
(this is for recursive transcoding of audio. for the occasional manual (video) coding job I hunt & pick the suitable ffmpeg options for an ad-hoc oneliner)

pacpl looks interesting enough.
the website is a bog of wix.com, but afaiu the developer is telling us to get the latest code by issuing

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pacpl/code pacpl-code

the sourceforge page doesn't look outdated either.

But manually hunting down perl dependencies can be a b!tch.

Last edited by ohnonot (2019-05-27 17:54:55)