My sister dropped off a hard drive with 2TB of FLAC and related (Shorten audio,
possibly some others) lossless audio files. She wants them in iTunes and small
enough that she can put them on her laptop.
I have xACT which works, but crashes often enough that it is not a solution for
processing tens of thousands of files. It also will not preserve the folder
structure (I can’t write to the same drive as it is very full).
What I would like to do is to get a command line solution that I can script to
just run through the entire collection. A problem is that the shorten audio
library, at least, can really only convert to wav, and then I convert from wav
to mp4 or m4a.
I’m hoping someone has already done this and I don’t have to start from scratch.
Something like this:
#!/bin/bash
SOURCE="/Volumes/FLACSTUFF"
TARGET="/Volumes/RAID/FLACSTUFF"
FIND="/opt/local/bin/gfind"
LOGFILE=“${TARGET}/.deletedfiles.txt"
rm $LOGFILE
if [ -d "${SOURCE}" ]; then
cd "${SOURCE}"
$FIND . -type f -name “*.shn” -exec {magic happens here} ${TARGET.TMP}.m4a \;
fi
rsync -raRP --include=“*,m4a” ${SOURCE} ${TARGET}
## EOF
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