Convert .flac and .ape to mp3

[Ultima]

do_something "$i"

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Polytropon wrote:
> > > What do you convert ape and flac audio files to mp3 with?
> > >
> > > multimedia/ffmpeg does not seem to support encoding to mp3 (only
> > > decoding), what else could I try?
> >
> > Huh? I'm using ffmpeg regularly to convert from mp4 or flv _to_ mp3,
> > this works quite well. Maybe you need to install an additional encoder,
> > plugin, or library if you're lacking mp3 support?
> >
> >       % ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp3
> >
> > It does what it says on the can. Works for years. :-)
> >
> > With ffmpeg's mp3 support, you should be able to convert from flac
> > or ape in a similar manner.
>
> I'm somewhat disappointed because ffmpeg does not seem to be able to
> split flac/ape files according to cue file, or extract track names
> therefrom and insert them into the mp3 file.
>
> So eventually I will need to write a script to process all the *.ape
> files, probably with bchunk. Which brings the following question. If
> the file and directory names have spaces in them, a simple loop like
> this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in `find . -iname '*.ape'`
> do
>   do_something $i
> done
>
> breaks on spaces.
>
> What is the sh magic to handle such filenames?
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> AS43859
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