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A command line utility that automates the task of maintaining a lossy encoded copy of your lossless music for use on portable devices.
- maintains a mirrored directory structure efficiently
- only new or changed files are copied/encoded
- encodes lossless formats to a lossy format (see Supported Formats below)
- copies lossy files without transcoding
- copies albumart
- utilizes all available processing cores
- lossless formats:
- flac -> https://xiph.org/flac/
- high quality re-sampling for sampling frequencies above 44.1khz
- lossy formats:
- mp3 -> http://lame.sourceforge.net/
- replaygain analyzed and applied
- ID3 v1.1 and ID3 v2.4 applied
Start off by cloning the lossless2lossy repository:
git checkout https://github.com/lenzenmi/lossless2lossy.git cd lossless2lossy
Before installing lossless2lossy, you will need to install 3rd party packages and ensure they are available on your system path.
Name: | lame |
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URL: | http://lame.sourceforge.net/ |
Name: | flac |
URL: | https://xiph.org/flac/ |
Name: | sox |
URL: | http://sox.sourceforge.net/ |
Name: | mp3gain |
URL: | http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net |
Name: | python2-eyed3 |
URL: | http://eyed3.nicfit.net/ |
- mutagenx
The easiest way to install python packages is to use pip
:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Once all of the dependencies are installed simply do:
python setup.py install
Warning
- Please organize your albums into unique folders.
Each folder that
lossless2lossy
copies a lossy file into will be analyzed for ReplayGain and the results will be used to adjust the volume of the lossy files.lossless2lossy
assumes that all files in a directory belong to the same album.If you have hundreds of files in one directory, this is going to take a long long time and will provide useless results.
lossless2lossy --delete {format} source encoded
where:
--delete (optional) if specified all files that are not present in the source folder will be deleted from the encoded folder {format} (optional default=mp3) choose the format to encode to source (required) path to the lossless files encoded (required) path where the encoded files will be saved
lossless2lossy --delete /home/music/flac/ /home/music/mp3/