Here’s what I do, it uses FFmpeg, doesn’t require a for loop and should work on any POSIX-compliant system. Take note that it will delete your original files! The idea is to make a copy of your music folder first, and then run this command on the copy.
find -name "*.flac" -exec sh -c 'ffmpeg -i "$1" -acodec libmp3lame -aq 4 "${1%.flac}.mp3" && rm -f "$1"' _ {} \;
And that’s it! more …
I recently revisited a previous how-to I wrote up two years ago, thinking that there must be a better way to losslessly combine multiple MP3 files than to use 3 separate utilities.
The good news is, I think I’ve found the one true method. The bad news is, it still uses 3 programs. But, just like last time, the commands are short and sweet, and it’s easy to throw them into a shell script. more …
You’d think it would be very easy to combine multiple MP3 files into one, while preserving all the ID3 tag metadata and without re-encoding the audio (which is lossy). Well, it actually isn’t that hard at all, but since Google couldn’t find the answer for me, I thought I’d write it up. more …