Script to convert FLAC to mp3?

[piergen]

I would like have a script that can monitor my flac folder and everytime I rip a new cd to flac I would like the script to make a new folder with mp3 files @320 bit and place the newly created folder with mp3's into a folder named mp3.

This is my very first script but after reading up on linuxcommand.org I discovered the power of scripts. Maybe there allready excist such a script for all I know? Where would be a good place to search/look for templates that I can tailor to meet my needs?

Also I would like to hear good suggestions for other repetative tasks people solve with the use of scripts, that way I can easier see what else I can dig into.

Can scripts also be used to manipulate databases? For instance to every day search for top 50 of certain met criteria, or whatever else output one is looking for?

[piergen]

Turns out such a script excist. In fact there are tons of them.
Well that is great. So no need to reinvent the wheel here.
Many of the scripts are so complex I can not even satrt to figure out what they are doing, but his little one in a good start if anyone would like to have a peak.

Flac to mp3 script suitable for us that are new to scripting.

On the opposite end of scale, a more advanced script.


If you know of good script resources pls share with me.

Edit:
No need to share resources. I came across so many script resources pages that I will be an expert by the time I have looked at it all. But a cool thing is boring repeatative tasks could be of yesterday. Cause people are also sharing their works and let you dig right into it all.

[tornow]

I don't know much about multimedia, but would probably start like this:

abcde -o flac,mp3

And then follow the manpage and add this line to my abcde.conf:

OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'

with ${OUTPUT} meaning to put each filetype (flac, mp3, ogg, wav) in its own directory

man abcde, section OUTPUTTYPE:

For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process
for encoding, tagging and moving, so you can use the format
placeholder, OUTPUT, to create different subdirectories to hold
the different types. The variable OUTPUT will be 'vorbis',
'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a' and/or 'wav', depending on
the OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACK‐
NUM}._${TRACKFILE}'

To put it different: i would not rip the CD and then convert it, but convert it like i want the result to be. With abcde or any other ripper which does this.

It does not seem to be perfect. But, like said, i don't know much about multimedia and could figure it out in a few minutes. A bit of research and you should get your result.

[piergen]

Tks I will look into it this weekend.