From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 6 15:24:50 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0168EBE237 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:24:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FB1733BB for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.5_1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 39907115; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 21:20:00 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w06FOmVw035839; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 22:24:48 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w06FOiBa035836; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 22:24:44 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 22:24:44 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Dave Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert .flac and .ape to mp3 Message-ID: <20180106152444.GB35747@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180104163421.GA15692@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <1936112.H3c9qehT4n@amd.asgard.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1936112.H3c9qehT4n@amd.asgard.uk> Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:24:51 -0000 Dave wrote: > > > > What do you convert ape and flac audio files to mp3 with? > > > > multimedia/ffmpeg does not seem to support encoding to mp3 (only > > decoding), what else could I try? > > I prefer audio/sox but, like FFMPeG, you need to compile in mp3 encoding > support from port. Sox is the audio equivalent of FFMPeG, ie very, very > powerful in it's own are of expertise which can be as simple or as complex > to use as you want it to be, eg sox file.flac file.mp3 It would be interesting to find something which splits large flac/ape files before converting to mp3, and parses .cue files for track names and inserts them as ID tags into mp3 files. I hear sysutils/bchunk can split ape files into separate tracks but how do I feed track names to ffmpeg/sox/whatever to be included as mp3 ID tags? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859