Little note
Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:14Okay, so I kind of solved the music file conversion issue. Perhaps not in the most ideal way, but in a way that works until I can do it better.
So, I couldn't figure out how to move MP3's out of their respective FLAC folders and into a suitably named folder for MP3's. I can, however, easily copy all newly created FLAC folders to a temporary folder, before I move the originals to their place. From that temporary folder, it's easy to convert all files, remove all the *.flac originals (which are just copies used for conversion, anyway), and then put MP3's where they should go at my leisure.
The only problem now? During conversion, the new files retain the .flac ending AND also get .mp3 added. So, basically they're all named like "01 - Some song.flac.mp3", which isn't quite right. This is easily fixable with an automator script that I can run on the parent folder, though - at least that is a solution until I can fix my conversion script to do the naming more suitably.
Okay, so it's not perfect, but it's progress and it gets the job done for now. Heh.
So, I couldn't figure out how to move MP3's out of their respective FLAC folders and into a suitably named folder for MP3's. I can, however, easily copy all newly created FLAC folders to a temporary folder, before I move the originals to their place. From that temporary folder, it's easy to convert all files, remove all the *.flac originals (which are just copies used for conversion, anyway), and then put MP3's where they should go at my leisure.
The only problem now? During conversion, the new files retain the .flac ending AND also get .mp3 added. So, basically they're all named like "01 - Some song.flac.mp3", which isn't quite right. This is easily fixable with an automator script that I can run on the parent folder, though - at least that is a solution until I can fix my conversion script to do the naming more suitably.
Okay, so it's not perfect, but it's progress and it gets the job done for now. Heh.