audioconvert! the new super script to convert audio files!

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hi gals, hi dudes!

this is my first post to this forum!

i just made a script that converts audio files from wav, ogg, mp3, mpc, flac, ape or wma into wav, ogg, mp3, mpc, flac or ape! all with a right click of the mouse! that is, if you're usin' nautilus or rox. it was designed for nautilus, but it also works on rox, and of course as a standalone bash script. it uses zenity to show progress bars and ask questions

this is the freshmeat link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert/ there you will find the latest version, the cvs version, and the link to the homepage!

please test it and give me feedback on the homepage on how it works, point me out bugs, make suggestions on how to improve it, and please test it on fluxbox and such, to see if it can be installed as a file manager script there, too!

aac support comin' soon!

ciao!

edo

Earthwings · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject:

Moved from Multimedia to Unsupported Software.

CarloJekko · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

It is very good... THX!!!!
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gimpel · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:

hummm, looks very interesting. wanna have it

now, any chance to get that working in nautilus without desktop mode?
nautilus --no-desktop --browser that is...

tried copying and chmod'ing it in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts but that doesn't seem to do the trick...
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thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

thankyou very much for your feedback, gals and dudes!

uh, by the way. if someone wants to help me out with more translation, you're more than welcome to do so! you can either post'em here or in the savannah homepage as a patch! or send'em to me by email! by the way, don't forget to tell me your email address and possibly your name, or at least your nickname, so i'll put you in the changelog!

i already have italian, english, brazilian portuguese, and i need someone to complete french. all the other translations are more than welcome!

ciao!

edo

Rainmaker · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

I'll do a dutch translation. Looks very nice. Any chance of an ebuild?

here's the diff:

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

thankyou rainmaker, i've included your patch! it'll be available very soon in cvs, and then in the next release of audioconvert!

as far as an ebuild goes, it would be really nice to make one, but... how do you make an ebuild?

thankyou!

ciao!

edo

lukaz · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:

hi thetroublemaker

I like your script a lot! not much trouble over here but... probale you can help :-)

I've put your script in my ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder and it shows up in nautilus. It also comes up with some dialogs but never does convert any files if I call it from nautilus. It runs just fine from the commandline if I type something like:

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

version 0.2 has come out!

visit http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert/ to download it!

many new features, includin': it's now a lot easier to convert large groups of files. for instance, at the very beginnin' a question asks if we want to edit the metatags for each file or not, so we can say no and let the files convert. right after that, quality of compression is only asked once, before compressions take place, and it's used for all the group of files.

there still is a question askin' for each file if we want to convert it or not, but i think i'll make it optional in 0.2.1, so convertin' large groups of files will then become a snap of fingers!

dutch, french, to be completed, and brazilian portuguese translations added. german translation comin' soon!

for lukaz. try and see if the bug you found is fixed in this version! or else be more specific. what nautilus verions do you have?

please give me a lot of feedback!

ciao!

edo

dapsaille · Advocate Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 2366 Location: Paris

Hello to you :p

I'm trying your software for only one thing convert FROM mp3 TO wma .. yes i'm a masochist person :p

So i hope your soft can do it ^^

lukaz · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:05 am Post subject:

CarloJekko · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

i've put it in nautlus script folder...
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loswillios · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

wanted to test it as well but unfortunately I get always this error (both, 0.1.1 and 0.2):

The window pops up, but there is no item in the drop down list so I can't do anything.

Also, I have to call it with "sh audio-convert .." cause "./audio-convert ..." gives me permission denied. of course i set the x-bit (755).

best regards
jan

loswillios · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

hey!

i've checked out the cvs-version and it's running! Wonderful!

A few improvements would be good:

- make spaces possible in filenames
- my Konsole is always garbled after running audio-convert, i.e I don't see what I type (tried aterm too)
- I got plenty of "mplayer -ao pcm:file=foo/bar.wav foo/bar.mp3"-zombies in my "ps ax"-output. killed them with killall mplayer but the mp3-file is only a few 100kb.
- Why use mplayer and lame simultaneously? I see in my top-list something like "lame -m auto --preset extreme Stand_up.wav Stand_up.mp3"
- konsole-output of the script is:

But Stand_up.mp3 exists (even if it's only a few kb). I have the suspicion that the ls-output is inspected _before_ the file is converted.

keep on the good work!

greets
jan

ps. sorry for my english :/

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hello everyone!

audioconvert version 0.2.1 is out! visit http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert to download it!

a new feature has been added so that now it's possible to convert large groups of files with three or four clicks! support for flac metatags has been added! and now the script is available in german, too, thanks to lukaz!

keep in mind that new translations, or updates to translations, since there are a few new variables to translate, are more than welcome!

as of now we have: italian, dutch, english, french, german, brazilian portuguese! submit more if you feel like, and don't forget to give me your email address, so i can quote you in the changelog!

thank you very much for your feedback, but please give me a lot more on how it works, and what features you would like included!

for dapsaille. convertin' to wma will almost certainly never be available. sorry dude. i encourage you to use the script though!

for lukaz and loswillios. are your bugs still present in the new version? please let me know! i'll keep workin' on the script!

ciao!

edo

DBordello · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 5

Hello,

I just found your script and love the concept. I have a few comments.

1.) It doesn't work over nfs (network) mounted file systems. I believe that this is due to the way nautilus passes the paths. Since all of my music is hosted on another computer i have to use the script from a shell.
2.) It would be nice to have some sort of defaults stored in a conf some where so that they aren't asked each time. I imagine that many people use the same quality each time.
3.) Would be nice to have a completely non-interactive version. Ie, uses the defaults stored and goes, and doesn't ask regarding each file.

So far you work looks great, keep up the good work.

dan

lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

HI,

My comments: I took a few wma files I have lying around and I ran the converter on it to convert WMA to WAV. The script (0.2.1) ended up converting part of the file only. When I ran the mplayer -ao command directly from the command line (without using the script), it converted the whole thing. FWIW, the generated file was 22MB when running the script and > 100MB when running mplayer directly.

You can test the files I was using here:

http://tikabzy.com/media.htm

There are three wma files to download.

I did the same conversions from MP3 to WAV and those worked fine.

L

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hello everyone!

version 0.2.2 is out! visit http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert to download it! many new features are in, includin': artist and album metatag fields are now remembered through multiple files. added two checks to make sure the input files are supported and the user has the right codecs to decode them. now a message informs the user the conversion has been completed. updated french translation. spanish translation added.

i want to remember you that more translations and updates to existin' translations are more than welcome! as of now we have: english, italian, french, brazilian portuguese, dutch, german and spanish!

i hope you guys enjoy the new features, point me out to bugs, and keep givin' me the great feedback you gave me so far!

for everyone who's had issues so far: are the issues still present in this new release?

for lduperval. i'm afraid the wma to wav issue is still present. for some reason it don't work correctly. conversions from wma onto other formats work fine though. i'm workin' on it. i hope it'll be fixed in the next version!

ciao!

edo

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hi everyone!

version 0.2.3 is out! check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert to download it! new features include: a message warns about which codec is missin'. it's now possible to pass metatags on from one file to another. void metatags are now recognized and treated. updated german and spanish translations!

as usual i remind y'all that translations and updates to translations are always very welcome, as i want this script to be as widespread as possible!

thankyou very much for your feedback, keep it up and i'll keep answerin' your concerns!

ciao!

edo

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hi everyone!

version 0.2.4 is out! go to http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert to download it! the new features include: files with dots in their name are now recognized, thus supported. completely rewrote filetype checks for efficency. this means, the program now runs faster! polish translation added. bug fixes!

as usual i remind you that any new translation or updates to existin' translations are more than welcome! i want this program to be as international as possible!

also any suggestion to improvements, pointin' bugs out and all kind of feedback are always welcome!

that's it for now. keep givin' me the awesome feedback you've been givin' me so far, and i'll keep answerin'!

ciao!

edo

predatorfreak · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

thetroublemaker · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

hi everyone!

version 0.3.0 is out! i've been workin' on it for a while and now... the long awaited aac support has arrived! you can now convert from any format into aac, or from aac into any format, preserve or edit the tags... everythin' you used to do with audioconvert, except now it's with aac support, too!

as usual new translations are always welcome! as of now we've got many, but they need updatin'! so if any of you speaks one of the translated languages and finds that some messages are not bein' translated, please send me the updates, and i'll include you in the credits!

and keep givin' me the awesome feedback you've been givin' so far! try audioconvert!

ciao!

edo

thrope · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 66

Hi,

While I think this is a very useful tool I thought I should point out that converting between different psychoacoustic audio codecs is a really bad idea and should be avoided if at all possible.

This is because psychoacoustic compression works by applying a model of human hearing to eliminate portions of the sound that would be less likely to be perceived by the listener, usually because of auditory masking effects.
Different codecs use different models, and so, for example, the second pass can leave out components that were assumed to be there by the first encoding engine. Encoding with two different codecs usually results in sound quality that is significantly worse than encoding alone in either format.

Anyway I guess a lot of people listen on computer speakers won't really hear the difference... but it is there!

Keep up the good work!

amorpheus · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 54

http://djamo.gotdns.com/audio-convert-0.3.0.ebuild

Fix it

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