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A multicore-enabled Python script that transcodes music files into different formats
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OVERVIEW Piggy is a script I wrote to transcode my massive (and well-organized) collection of FLAC and Ogg Vorbis music files into MP3s. It's called "piggy" because it piggybacks off of freely-available decoders and encoders. It also scales to run as many jobs in parallel as you have cores, so assuming your disks can keep up, you should benefit tremendously. Today, piggy supports decoding from and encoding into these formats: - FLAC - Ogg Vorbis - MP3 - ALAC (Mac OS X Only) - DRM-free AAC (Decode Only) A disclaimer: I hacked this together in 2007 and subsequently ported it to Python 3 a couple years later. It's not meant to be robust nor secure, and it makes no serious attempt to handle metadata other than the basic tag information such as artist, album, title, track number, and year. I've only tried it in Gentoo Linux and Mac OS X. DEPENDENCIES You will need at least some of these packages: - python3 - AtomicParsley - faad2 - flac - lame - madplay - vorbis-tools USAGE You need Python 3 to run piggy. Piggy works like this: you supply it with a list of input directories, an output directory, and a list of output formats you want to convert your music to. It scans the input directories for music files and creates a mirrored directory hierarchy of your transcoded songs in the output folder for every format you specify. At the very end of piggy.py, there is a list of predefined encoder settings. Pick however many of them you wish to use and specify them on the command line. The general format is: $ python3 piggy.py \ -s setting1 [-s setting2] [...] \ -i /path/to/input/folder/1 [-i /path/to/input/folder/2] [...] \ /path/to/output/folder Here's a more concrete example that scans ~/Music for all my music and creates two mirrored hierarchies, one in ~/Desktop/vorbis-q5 for the resulting Ogg Vorbis files, and one in ~/Desktop/mp3-vbr2 for the resulting MP3 files: $ python3 piggy.py -s oggenc-q5 -s lame-vbr2 -i ~/Music ~/Desktop Enjoy! Serban Giuroiu http://serban.org
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