[Request] Convert FLAC to alac (m4a)
mmalisz opened this issue · 5 comments
It would be a nice feature to automaticly convert flac to m4a (or any other lossless ipod compatible format).
I've got a lots of flac albums which I had encoded a while ago and I don't really want to encode them all once again.
If I've understood correctly, you want to compress the files to use less space.
What I want is to convert flac files (which are not supported by ipod) to any other supported format (alac, wav) with keeping the quality.
As I intended, the files with unsupported codec would be converted automaticly to the desired format 'on the fly', overwriting / removing original files.
Edit:
As for help, I don't know python that good :P I could write some simple bash script using 3rd party utilities.
What me and you want can be merged.
A simple script that imports music onto your ipod and can convert them to any specific format and optionally add compression (as the shuffle only has 2gb).
As I said a simple bash script would be best and also this does not have to be integrated into the shuffle.py file (as it has nothing to do with the database generation). So feel free to write a bash script. I'd also write a bash script. And btw: I do not know much bash and python neither. When I modified this script I had not a single plan about python (and i am still far away from pro) ;)