Album Compresser

Discription

This script compress all uncompressed audio file (such as .aif/.wav) in the album to FLAC format. The uncompressed audio in the directory will be removed after the end of processes. It is just a wrapper of FFmpeg.

Installation

Mac

brew install ffmpeg
cp aifcomp.sh /usr/local/bin/aifcomp
cp rewriteextention.sh /usr/local/bin/rewriteextention

Usage

To compress aif to flac

cd PATH_OF_ALBUM
aifcomp

To rewrite audio file extention from mp4 to m4a

cd PATH_OF_ALBUM
rewriteextention

example

cd ~/Music/Library/Artist/Album
aifcomp

Expected directory structure

Before process

~/Music
└── Library
    ├── Artist A
    │   └── Album A
    │       ├── 01 music.aif
    │       └── 02 music.aif
    └── Artist B
        ├── Album B
        │   └── 01 music.mp4
        └── Album C
            ├── 01 music.mp4
            └── 02 music.mp4

After process

~/Music
└── Library
    ├── Artist A
    │   └── Album A
    │       ├── 01 music.flac
    │       └── 02 music.flac
    └── Artist B
        ├── Album B
        │   └── 01 music.m4a
        └── Album C
            ├── 01 music.m4a
            └── 02 music.m4a