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Perl Audio Converter (PAC) - Philip Lyons (viiron@gmail.com)

Usage

pac --<formattoformat> <--file/--dir> <file(s)/dir(s)>

pac --convertto <format> <--file/--dir> <file(s)/dir(s)>

Use 'pac --help' or 'pac --man' for a list of options.

Requirements

• = Required

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Application     Version     Link
-----------     -------     ----

*perl            5.8.7     http://www.perl.com

lame            3.96.1     http://lame.sourceforge.net
flac             1.2.1     http://flac.sourceforge.net
mac               3.99     http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port
shorten          3.5.1     http://www.etree.org/linux.html#reqsoft
faac              1.24+    http://www.audiocoding.com
faad               2.0     http://www.audiocoding.com
cdparanoia         9.8     http://www.xiph.org/paranoia
oggenc           1.0.1     http://www.vorbis.com
oggdec             1.0     http://www.vorbis.com
mplayer        1.0pre7+    http://www.mplayerhq.hu
mppenc            1.15     http://www.musepack.com
mppdec          1.95z2     http://www.musepack.com
wavpack            4.2     http://www.wavpack.com
ofr/ofs          4.510     http://www.LosslessAudio.org
ttaenc             3.2     http://www.true-audio.com
lpac              1.40     http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html
kexis            0.2.2     http://sourceforge.net/projects/kexis
ffmpeg           0.4.9     http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net
la                0.3d     http://www.lossless-audio.com
sox            12.17.8     http://sox.sourceforge.net/

amarok             1.3     http://amarok.kde.org

Required Perl Modules

*Getopt::Long
*File::Find
*File::Copy
*File::Basename
*Parse::RecDescent
*Carp
*Inline
*Inline::C
*Pod::Usage

Tag Modules

To install all modules below type the following:

pacinstall --install tags

Or you can install them manually by doing the following:

MP3::Tag            -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install MP3::Info'
MP4::Info           -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install MP4::Info'
Ogg::Vorbis::Header -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Ogg::Vorbis::Header'
Audio::WMA          -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Audio::WMA'
Audio::FLAC::Header -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Audio::FLAC::Header'
Audio::Musepack     -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Audio::Musepack'
Audio::APETags      -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Audio::Musepack'
CDDB_get            -   perl -MCPAN -e 'install CDDB_get'

Background

PAC is an attempt to create an "all-in-one" audio converter front-end. I've seen many audio converters that will convert mp3->ogg, ogg->mp3, etc. for linux, but never one that would convert from most popular formats to the another.

PAC also includes extensions for converting your audio files through amaroK and Konqueror.

Examples

Most operations should be fairly easy. Converting an entire mp3 directory to ogg is as simple as...

pac --mp3toogg --dir=/home/user/mp3s

or if you need to convert several different mp3s to wav format and put them in your home directory to burn a CD you would simply...

pac --mp3towav --outdir=/home/jondoe --file=file1.mp3 --file=file2.mp3

Recursive Directory Encoding

pac --wavtomp3 --dir=/home/my_wav_files/ --recursive pac --convertto ape --dir=/home/dir/ --recursive

Regular Expressions

pac --mp3toflac .mp3
pac --mp3toogg Creed

Playlist

Convert files in playlist. Supported formats are (XMMS & PATH/FILE)

Playlists should be in the following format

/path/to/Song.ogg
/path/to/Song2.ogg

XMMS .M3U format is also supported

pac --oggtomp3 --playlist myplaylist
pac --flactotta --playlist xmms.m3u

KDE Examples

Konqueror

Open Konqueror and browse to your audio directory. Right click on an audio file/directory, left click on Actions, left click on PAC Convert and choose the audio format you wish to convert to.

To disable any of the warnings/popups/dialogs edit pac.conf and change the undesired action to 0

amaroK

The amarok script has to be installed manually.

1. Copy kde/amarok/pacx-amarokscript.tar.bz2 to your home directory.
2. From amarok, click on Tools->Script Manager.
3. Once the script dialog appears click on 'Install Script'.
4. Locate & click on pacx-amarokscript.tar.bz2, then click ok. (A confirmation should appear saying "Script successfully installed.")
5. Click ok
6. Click on pacx
7. Click run.

Allow 3/4 seconds for the menu's to be created. From there you can right click on a file, click on Pac Convert, and then click on the format you wish to convert to.

Note: pac base 'MUST' be installed in order for pacx to work.

pacinstall --install base

Bugs

If you encounter a bug, please email me a detailed description of the problem at (viiron@gmail.com) and it will be corrected in the next release, or a patch will be submitted.

As always, bug reports are needed and greatly appreciated.

Feature Request

Notice something missing?
Have a feature you would like implemented? Audio codec you need not found?
Questions / Comments?

Email: Philip Lyons (viiron@gmail.com)

Jobs

Translation           -  Any language(s) other than English would 
                         be appreciated.  If your interested shoot me an
                         email, and you will be provided with certain
                         text to be translated.

Beta Testers

Distribution Packages - As of now, other than the Slackware package that I

                         provide there is a package for Debian (thanks to 
                         Chris Martin).  I would like to add as many more as 
                         possible.