FLAC to MP3 (Nautilus failure on File Properties)

[R.L. Reingard]

Hello Mark, Byron and Lee
thanks for the help and suggestions.
what i did experience after the use of 3 different scripts (the one below  
and two others found on the web) is, that all of them converted FLAC to  
MP3 nicely. what realy bugs me is: if i want to see the properties of a  
converted file Nautilus gets blocked and has to be restarted (this does  
not at all happen with any other MP3 file i have).
what to think of that?
René

> Am 14.09.2005, 15:46 Uhr, schrieb Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com>:

> For FLAC to MP3  I use the etree scripts found here:
> http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/

> Shn2mp3 or flac2mp3

> They are tuned for the live music trading scene, and actually parse an
> info text file to tag the files with artist, date, venue, source, and
> song names.  I believe if the FLAC files are tagged it will just
> transfer them to the mp3.  It works on whole directories at a time.
> You need to have lame installed too.


+++ script no.1 +++

http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/


+++ script no.2 +++

$ cat /usr/local/bin/flac2mp3.sh
  PRESET=$1
  if test "x$PRESET" = "x"; then
  PRESET=extreme
  fi

  for a in *
  do
       OUTF=`echo "$a" | sed s/\.flac/.mp3/g`

       ARTIST=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
       TITLE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
       ALBUM=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`
       GENRE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=GENRE | sed s/.*=//g`
       TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`
       echo
       echo "Launching: flac -c -d $a | lame --preset $PRESET - $OUTF"
       echo

       flac -c -d "$a" | lame --preset $PRESET - "$OUTF"

       echo
       echo "Setting id3 ($TITLE, $TRACKNUMBER, $ARTIST, $ALBUM, $GENRE)"
       echo

       if test "x$TITLE" != "x"; then
         id3 -t "$TITLE" "$OUTF"
       fi

       if test "x$TRACKNUMBER" != "x"; then
         id3 -T "$TRACKNUMBER" "$OUTF"
       fi

       if test "x$ARTIST" != "x"; then
         id3 -a "$ARTIST" "$OUTF"
       fi

       if test "x$ALBUM" != "x"; then
        id3 -A "$ALBUM" "$OUTF"
       fi

       if test "x$GENRE" != "x"; then
         id3 -g "$GENRE" "$OUTF"
       fi
  done

+++ end of script no.2 +++


+++ script no.3 +++

for a in *
do
        OUTF=`echo "$a" | sed s/\.flac/.mp3/g`

        ARTIST=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
        TITLE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
        ALBUM=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`
        GENRE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=GENRE | sed s/.*=//g`
        TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`

        flac -c -d "$a" | lame -m j -b 128 -s 44.1 - "$OUTF"
        id3 -t "$TITLE" -T "$TRACKNUMBER" -a "$ARTIST" -A "$ALBUM" -g  
"$GENRE" "$OUTF"

done

+++ end of script no.3 +++