Audio Utilities

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apeinfo, Convert to FLAC, Get Album Art

small bug in "convtoflac" ?

Note: The following message was originally posted by an unknown forum member on 05/30/2010, but was flagged as spam. I'm manually reposting it here to make it available to everyone.

Hello there,

just used your script to to some .ape -> .flac conversion.
I used the -f flag since the other didn't work and I encountered the following issue, log:

convtoflac "Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).ape" -f

Processing 'Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).ape'...

FFmpeg version SVN-r23328, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 25 2010 23:10:05 with gcc 4.5.0 20100520 (prerelease)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-postproc --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 50.16. 0 / 50.16. 0
libavcodec 52.69. 0 / 52.69. 0
libavformat 52.65. 0 / 52.65. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.20. 0 / 1.20. 0
libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Input #0, ape, from 'Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).ape':
Duration: 01:18:28.31, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 837 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: ape, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
/tmp/Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).wav: No such file or directory

Error: "Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).ape" could not be converted to a FLAC file.
rm: Entfernen von „/tmp/Vol. 1/Various - The Best Of Italo Disco vol.I (LP).wav“ nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Can it be that $PWD has to be where the actual file is or otherwise it will not work ?
Script tries to access /tmp// which does not exist : (

The file is apparently in a sub folder "Vol. 1"

Would be neat not have to go into each subfolder to do the thing we want. Hope I didn't mix something up, since it works as soon as
I go into the files folder to do conversion.

Bye

Flake

Hello, i suggest to use Flake encoder instead of flac. "Flake gives, on average, slightly better compression than the FLAC reference encoder and is about twice as fast." But it doesn't support input from stdin, so..

@@ -149,7 +143,8 @@

# Transcode file
if [ "$EXT" == "ape" ]; then
- $MAC "$FILE" - -d | $FLAC -$COMPRESS -s -o "$NAME.flac" -
+# $MAC "$FILE" - -d | $FLAC -$COMPRESS -s -o "$NAME.flac" -
+ $MAC "$FILE" "$NAME.wav" -d && $FLAC -$COMPRESS "$NAME.wav" "$NAME.flac" && rm "$NAME.wav"
elif [ "$EXT" == "flac" ]; then
$FLAC -d "$FILE" -c | $FLAC -$COMPRESS -s -o "$NAME.flac" -
elif [ "$EXT" == "shn" ]; then

Thanks!

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