mrkkrp / wav2

*DEPRECATED* Smart converter from WAV to FLAC and/or MP3 format

WAV → FLAC and/or MP3

This script can convert .wav files into FLAC or MP3 format using flac or lame encoders respectively. It's created to produce properly tagged, high quality versions of «master» files. Main features:

• when file name has numeric prefix it parses it and writes it as «tract number» tag;

• it can also automatically write «track title» tag;

• it can automatically count total number of supplied files and write this number as «total tracks» tag;

• it accepts various options like «album artist» and «album title» and passes them to corresponding encoder, this way you don't need to remember different options for every encoder (flac or lame), wav2 gives you level of abstraction;

• it can accept many files at once;

• it can convert to both FLAC and MP3 formats via one invocation;

• output directory can be specified (and created if needed);

• it makes sure that names of output files are acceptable on all major platforms, that is, you can have a file with question mark ? in its name on your Unix system, wav2 will produce correct track title tag, but the file name itself will be converted so Windows users can copy the file too.

Installation

This is a Python 3 script, you will need Python 3 installed to run it.

To install the software cd into the repository and execute the following:

# bash install.sh

Done. You can use uninstall.sh script to uninstall the software. Please note that you'll need flac and/or lame to actually convert anything, so install them too.

Documentation

wav2 comes with its own man page. Here is short synopsis:

usage: wav2 [-h] [-F] [-M] [-n] [-i] [-o OUT] [-l S] [-a S] [-c S] [-g S] [-y S]
            [--license] [--version]
            [FILE [FILE ...]]

Convert WAV files into FLAC and/or MP3 format

positional arguments:
  FILE                  file to process

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -F, --flac            convert FILE into FLAC format
  -M, --mp3             convert FILE into MP3 format
  -n, --count           count number of FILEs and write it as tag
  -i, --indexing        parse numeric prefix of filenames, store it as tag
  -o OUT, --output OUT  save converted files in OUT directory
  -l S, --album S       write S as «album» tag
  -a S, --artist S      write S as «artist» tag
  -c S, --comment S     write S as «comment» tag
  -g S, --genre S       write S as «genre» tag
  -y S, --year S        write S as «year» tag
  --license             show program's license and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit

Missing Features?

If you would like to see some new features in wav2, open an issue.

License

Copyright © 2015 Mark Karpov

Distributed under GNU GPL, version 3.