My Settings for Transcoding in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

[jeremyh]

Ok, I had trouble setting some of these up under Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), so I thought I would post my settings. I only included the ones I tested with our music library:

• wav > mp3
  - Step 1: lame -b %b -S %s -
• ogg > mp3
  - Step 1: oggdec -Q %s -o -
  - Step 2: lame -b %b - -
• wma > mp3*
  - Step 1: wma2mp3 %s %b
• flac > mp3
  - Step 1: flac -c -s -d %s
  - Step 2: lame -b %b - -
• m4a > mp3
  - Step 1: faad -q -w -f 2 %s
  - Step 2: lame -r -b %b - -
• mpc > mp3**
  - Step 1: mppdec --wav --silent %s -
  - Step 2: lame -b %b - -

* Setting up wma>mp3 required creating the wma2mp3 script and loading the libavcodec-unstripped via synaptic.

Here are the contents of wma2mp3.sh (Thanks Ikyo):

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#!/bin/bash
song=$1
bitrate=$2

ffmpeg -i "$song" -f mp3 -ab $bitrate - 2>/dev/null


** Had to manually load mppdec from http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin (used version 1.95z2)

Thanks Sindre for a great product! It works wonderfully and I appreciate your efforts!
FYI we are running Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit version, using Subsonic 3.6.

[RXWatcher]

Are you using the subsonic 3.6 release or a beta? if using the release how did you install the lame into the subsonic transcoding dir? Just make a symbolic link?

Thanks!
-Jim

[RXWatcher]

nevermind..creating the symbolic link worked.

[jeremyh]

You already answered, but yes, just symbolic links to get it working and I edited the original message to show that we are using 3.6 (full release from 1 Feb 2009).
I also put the wma2mp3 script in the /var/subsonic/transcode directory because nothing else on the machine needs it.