I have a hard disk full of live shows. Each show is in an individual
folder (titled by name and date of show), and contains the individual
wav files of the show, labeled "disc1track1, disc1track2, etc." It's
the same naming scheme in each of the 250 or so folders for each show.
I want to convert each audio file to flac - is there a way to do this
all at once? I can't just copy and paste each file into the frontend
because they share file names. What would be ideal is some way to add
the folders to a list, and have it encode any audio files found in each
folder. Thanks!
edit: whoops, didn't realize I was in wrong forum. emailed a moderator to move it.
Full Version: Help with batch FLAC encoding
Hi, take a look at this thread, this comment may be of use 
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:QUOTE(Egor @ Mar 23 2005, 18:37) 
I use my own script on Windows 2000:
Just copy it to a new text file and name that file with .cmd extension (e.g. "flac.cmd").
Then put the file in a directory with .wav files to encode and run (double click on) it.
All .wav files in this directory and all subdirectories will be encoded with default flac parameters.
And of course don't forget to change path to your flac.exe.
CODE
@echo off
set encoder="C:\Program Files\flac-1.1.2-win\bin\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.wav) do %encoder% "%%f")
set encoder="C:\Program Files\flac-1.1.2-win\bin\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.wav) do %encoder% "%%f")
Just copy it to a new text file and name that file with .cmd extension (e.g. "flac.cmd").
Then put the file in a directory with .wav files to encode and run (double click on) it.
All .wav files in this directory and all subdirectories will be encoded with default flac parameters.
And of course don't forget to change path to your flac.exe.
Ah, exactly what I was looking for. How then do I edit the default parameters that flac will use?
Thanks again, this will make my life a lot easier.
Thanks again, this will make my life a lot easier.
QUOTE(greigmg @ Jul 30 2006, 00:05)
How then do I edit the default parameters that flac will use?
You need to add additional parameters after %encoder% statement, e.g. (this will change compression level to the best possible and increase padding size for easy tagging):
QUOTE
@echo off
set encoder="C:\Program Files\flac-1.1.2-win\bin\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.wav) do %encoder% --best --padding=64000 "%%f")
set encoder="C:\Program Files\flac-1.1.2-win\bin\flac.exe"
for /r "." %%d in (.) do (cd %%d & for %%f in (*.wav) do %encoder% --best --padding=64000 "%%f")
Works perfectly - my Duron 600mhz is currently chugging away at compressing 300 gigs worth of wav files. Thanks again for the script and the quick replies.
is there a win98SE batch version of this? because i've tried in it and it doesn't work...
Unless you're using 4DOS, there's no way to do that.
Search the HA forums for "catwalk" (IIRC), it's a freeware program that can traverse a directory tree and perform identical operations inside each directory.
Search the HA forums for "catwalk" (IIRC), it's a freeware program that can traverse a directory tree and perform identical operations inside each directory.
Or an alternative would be to use the FLAC GUI. You can get all the files by using the Windows Explorer search: in case all the files you want to encode are in the sub-directories of one folder, you right-click that folder and do a "Search" for all "*.WAV files" and then drag'n'drop the result list into the FLAC GUI.
QUOTE(pepoluan @ Aug 7 2006, 22:26)
Unless you're using 4DOS, there's no way to do that.
Never say never! There's always Cygwin with its scripting and utilities.
find -type f '*.flac' -exec flac -V8 {} \;
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