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naund

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[solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

Hallo,
I'm looking for a tool for copying recursively audio files of different formats to another folder, e.g. on a SD card, but recoding all losseless formats (e.g. flac) and just copy files which are already converted to a lossy format (ogg, mp3).  Preferably something like rsync for copying only modified files but recoding losseless formats.  Does anyone has an suggestion?

Last edited by naund (2017-08-08 11:50:31)

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

You're describing 2 steps in there it seems.  For simply copying of lossy, use rsync with the --exclude flag to not process the .flac files.  For them, use a util like flac2all (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flac2all/) then copy them over.  Might be easier to reverse those steps, 1) make all mp3 or whatever, then rysnc.

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naund

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

OK, thank you for pointing me to flac2all.  Indeed, it shouldn't be too complicated to craft a script for this job.  But I'm still suprized, that ther exist no ready-made tool for such a common job.

HiImTye

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

I might be out of the loop here, but does re-encoding lossy formats actually gain anything? doesn't it just leave you with a larger output file of the same (or slightly worse due to re-encoding) quality as the input file?

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

I might be out of the loop here, but does re-encoding lossy formats actually gain anything? doesn't it just leave you with a larger output file of the same (or slightly worse due to re-encoding) quality as the input file?

No, it doesn't gain anything.

But your the first person in this thread to mention re-encoding lossy formats.

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naund

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

But I'm still suprized, that ther exist no ready-made tool for such a common job.

After playing around with flac2all I found the swithches -c for copying all non flac files and -x for excluding with an regular expression.  This is the tool I was looking for.

HiImTye

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Re: [solved] tool for copying lossy and recode losseless audio files

But your the first person in this thread to mention re-encoding lossy formats.

my bad, I completely misread the OP