Use this simple set of utilities for transcoding audio files either in NodeJS code, or as a CLI.

Use of this utility requires ffmpeg installed on your system. If not already installed, download or if on Mac install with Homebrew

brew install ffmpeg

For use as a library in your NodeJS code, run the following from inside your local project:

npm install symbl-media --save

For use as a CLI:

npm install -g symbl-media

To verify that it's installed properly, check with version command:

media version

Currently this utility only supports one feature:

• Transcode Audio file

If using in CLI mode, to print the detailed usage of this utility you can run this command.

media --help

You can simply transcode (convert) an audio file on your file system using this utility.

Use the transcode command to transcode the file.

media transcode -i ./my-input-file.wav -o ./my-output-file.mp3 -f mp3

  `-i`, `--inFile`    file       Path to the Input File to be transcoded.                   
  `-o`, `--outFile`   file       Path to where the Output File should be saved.             
  `-f`, `--outFormat` format     Format of the output file. For example: mp3, wav, aac etc. 

You can quickly transcode any audio/video file using transcodeMediaFile method.

const {transcodeMediaFile} = require('symbl-media');
(async () => {
    try {
        const result = await transcodeMediaFile('./my-input-file.wav', 'my-output-file.mp3', 'mp3');
        console.log('Successfully transcoded to: ', result.outPath);
    } catch (e) {
        console.error(e);
    }
})();

Also checkout the Examples folder for more examples

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected], through our Community Slack, or developer community

This guide is actively developed, and we love to hear from you! Please feel free to create an issue or open a pull request with your questions, comments, suggestions and feedback. If you liked our integration guide, please star our repo!

This library is released under the MIT License