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Calum:
Hi.

You might be interested to know about wma2mp3 which you can find at http://wma2mp3.501megs.com - it is a set of scripts that i am now maintaining, which convert files of one audio type, to another audio type, using the bash command line. At the moment all it does is simplifies the process of using mplayer and lame to convert between various formats without the user having to do each file individually and remember all the command line switches.

See what you think of it, hope it's useful. I have big plans for it, but not sure when they will end up being implemented!

piratePenguin:
I made my own bash script for doing this a while ago, but it sucked (but it did do the job).
This one looks nice. Good job.

Calum:
thanks! it's v simple right now, but perhaps with a few arms and legs it can be a lot more versatile.

one thing i'm thinking about now is when i add more options whether to make it interactive or just use commandline switches. the whole point of the script is to cut down on switches. On the other hand if the user wants to do a whole batch job then it'd be a pain in the arse to have it asking what bitrate to make the output files every time it was invoked (for example), although that'd still be fractionally better than having to type out a big long command plus switches for every individial file...

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Calum ---one thing i'm thinking about now is when i add more options whether to make it interactive or just use commandline switches. the whole point of the script is to cut down on switches. On the other hand if the user wants to do a whole batch job then it'd be a pain in the arse to have it asking what bitrate to make the output files every time it was invoked (for example), although that'd still be fractionally better than having to type out a big long command plus switches for every individial file...
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I'd use switches, and maybe have a switch for specifying a config file (storing a list of switches, possibly). If things got complicated enough, you could even package a few config files for e.g. mp3 128kbps (and other options) etc.

solemnwarning:
i might write a perl\C++ version of this that will get stuff from STDIN by default but you can also use command line switches or a config file.

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