{"id":88,"date":"2012-09-03T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-11-03T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T21:01:59","slug":"converting-flac-mp3-command-line-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/converting-flac-mp3-command-line-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting FLAC to MP3 from the command line in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time I have some flac files I want to convert to mp3 files so they will play on my car radio. This is simple enough to do,and with a Google search I found this command.<\/p>\n

for f in *;do flac -cd $f |lame -b 128 - $f.mp3;done<\/strong>\r\n (http:\/\/www.upubuntu.com\/2011\/06\/how-to-convert-flac-to-mp3-from-command.html)<\/a><\/pre>\n
The first problem with this is it doesn’t like spaces in the file names. This can be solved by adding quotation marks<\/p>\n
for f in *;do flac -cd \"$f\" |lame -b 128 - \"$f\".mp3;done<\/strong><\/pre>\n
The second problem is, it creates all the files with the name foo.flac.mp3. After a bit of research I found the rename command can quickly rename all of the files.<\/p>\n
rename 's\/\\.flac.mp3$\/.mp3\/' *.mp3<\/strong><\/pre>\n
You could probably add this to the end of the for loop with a && or something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From time to time I have some flac files I want to convert to mp3 files so they will play on my car radio. This is simple enough to do,and with a Google search I found this command. for f in *;do flac -cd $f |lame -b 128 – $f.mp3;done (http:\/\/www.upubuntu.com\/2011\/06\/how-to-convert-flac-to-mp3-from-command.html) The first problem with this is it doesn’t like…<\/p>\n
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