Feature request: Please add option to convert files to mp3

[erkiha]

Would be nice to have an option to convert downloaded files to specific format, for example to mp3. Like current playerargs there should be converterargs parameter for that. Use case for this is to prepare files for specific mediaplayer which is not able to play m4a or ogg.
Addidtionally (or optionally) there can be an option to run script for every file downloaded which should get the file in command line parameter. This way it would be possible to define more elaborate automation tasks to do with downloaded files.

[np1]

This would be useful. I really need to rewrite the configuration handling code as it's getting a bit messy. After it is rewritten I will look into implementing this.

[andrewwuan]

@np1 I'm looking into this issue recently. There are a couple audio tools that are able to convert between audio formats. I've found sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/, a popular command-line audio tool) and audiotool (http://audiotools.sourceforge.net/index.html, a python library). Do you have preference on which one you want to use?
Personally I prefer sox because it's easier to install (with same procedure as mplayer). Also, we can make this library optional (user will be prompted to install it when he/she tries to convert audio format).

[np1]

Hi, I have recently implemented this using ffmpeg/avconv - https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube/commit/c66e9cec06f026bb6346c4e1642aab9193e46052. The implementation uses a config file containing preset commands (which are selectable from within the mpsyt program) so any other tool could be set up by the user to handle the conversion if they require.

You can test it by installing the version on the develop branch and typing help encode for more details.

Would appreciate any feedback / suggestions / improvements.

[np1]

This feature is available in v0.2.0