I don't know where to ask this, so I'll ask this here. If you have any suggestions for another place to ask this, please let me now.
Is there an open source audio file librarian equivalent to Calibre for eBooks?
What I would like is a program that will do the following:
1) Search my entire hard drive, finding all the audio files on the drive.
2) Copy all the files into a common location / structure
3) Sync the files to a portable device, converting them if neccessary. (In other words, converting the aac to mp3 to play on a non-iPod player.)
3a) Be able to handle gracefully if the portable device can't hold all of the library.
4) Provide library functionality, similar to Windows Media Player and iTunes
5) Provide player functionality from with the library
Support for video files would be gravy.
I looked on Wikipedia, but the article didn't address the functionality I was interested in.
Songbird looked interesting, but I'm not at all sure it converts file formats. What other choices are there? Is there an obvious choice?
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that does all of that is MediaMonkey, but only the paid version can do the format conversions.
If the files are all in one folder, just do a for loop around LAME. If they're separated into different folders, you can export to a playlist format like m3u and use foobar2000's converter function (you can even make it a frontend for any arbitrary CLI encoder).
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on-the-fly conversion as it was copying the music onto a portable player, so that he didn't have to keep multiple formats of the music in his library.
It is possible to set an output folder with the methods I suggested.
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My self I do not own an iPod to test, but I know Winamp supports iPods in some way !
Also it can convert files to WMA, aac etc., just to convert to MP3 you'll need to register for WinampPro
For all your other points I think Winamp can do all.
I just released a new update of the portable version:
Winamp Portable 5.581 developement test 1
(a bit of self-promotion
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Can do:
1. When you create a library, you can search the whole computer, and use filters if you need to.
2. It can move your files into a common location and rename them using the file tags if you'd like.
3. Yep.
4. Natch.
5. Of course.
There's a huge amount of functionality for tagging and renaming files, too.
Also, to convert, you'll need to separately download the LAME libraries. It's a licensing thing, every open source mp3 converter make you do this (or should), but it's a one-time thing.
Don't think it can do video files.
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