Batch convert broken audio files

[Lucas Krech]

Anyone have a quick/easy way to batch convert MP3s that won't play in Qlab into a workable format?

-L

Lucas Benjaminh Krech

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[Brendan Aanes]

http://sbooth.org/Max/ is the freeware batch converter I use.

(not to be confused with Max/MSP)

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[Paul Gotch]

XLD.

-p

[Lucas Krech]

Thanks. A friend is in Paris with a computer full of unreadable MP3s, no audio technician, and a show that opens tomorrow.

-L

Lucas Benjaminh Krech

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[Angus Turner]

+1 to XLD. 

Thanks
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[Rich Walsh]

On 16 Nov 2012, at 21:10, Lucas Krech wrote:

> Anyone have a quick/easy way to batch convert MP3s that won't play in Qlab into a workable format?

I wrote routines into QLab Script Companion to take all mp3 files in a QLab workspace, convert them to wav/aiff and replace them – or you can drop them on the app and do it before adding them to QLab. It uses a command line tool you already have.

Rich

[Chris Bakos]

Rich's Script is magic and you should consider using it but requires that Audacity be installed as well. XLD is fast and easy and will place the files right back in the same folder and is super duper fast. It's literally a drag and drop with almost no interface at all. 

[Rich Walsh]

On 16 Nov 2012, at 22:17, Chris Bakos wrote:

> Rich's Script … requires that Audacity be installed as well

No it doesn't. Nothing I've written _requires_ any other third-party software. The template uses Audacity as an example audio editor, but you can change that - or delete that Script Cue. QSC is self-contained, and supports drag & drop.

Rich

[Chris Bakos]

Oops, Sorry Rich. It has been a while since I looked at it. 

[Lucas Krech]

Thanks everyone!

I've passed the info on to my friend. One way or another the show will go on.

-L

Lucas Benjaminh Krech

Lighting and Video Artist

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646.263.8439

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On Nov 16, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Chris Bakos wrote:

Oops, Sorry Rich. It has been a while since I looked at it. 

[Paul]

Audiofile Engineerings Sample Manager would be a great candidate and less than twenty bucks for quite a few features including batch processing. I have often used Peak Pro for batch processing, and its coming soon to Sound Forge Pro Mac - but its not there yet. XLD looks useful too, but I think I'd like Sample Manager more. Is Barbabatch still a popular contender? Haven't heard about it for some time. Anyhow, I'd pick Sample Manager or XLD and be up and running in time.

[Jeremy Lee]

I use Peak, but that's not going to be an option anymore.  You could always just use iTunes.

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That's unwise...

On Nov 16, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Lucas Krech wrote:

Thanks. A friend is in Paris with a computer full of unreadable MP3s, no audio technician, and a show that opens tomorrow.

[Alex Kliner]

Hello everyone! I know this is an old thread and relates to codes written for QLab 2, but I've been searching around for a way to batch replace all my .mp3 and  .m4a (and even my .cafs if possible) in a QLab 3.0.15 project to something uncompressed. 

My board op/sound engineer manually drops all compressed and uncompressed files into a 3rd party program to make them all uniformly 48000k .aif files. She then has to re-target them and refer to a separate copy of the workspace for start times. I want to spare her this time-consuming process.

If I'm barking up the wrong tree, I apologize and will start a new thread. Any help is deeply appreciated!

[Rich Walsh]

Been using this for years. It works on selected cue, but you could make it repeat on each cue in selected. You’ll need to adjust the user settings to suit.

set userFormat to item 1 of {"wav", "aif"} -- Change this to "item 2" to convert to aiff

set userBitDepth to 16

set userBitRate to 44100

-- Declarations

global dialogTitle

set dialogTitle to "Convert to " & userFormat

-- Prepare some variables

if userFormat is "wav" then

set acceptableTypes to {"com.microsoft.waveform-audio"}

set formatString to "WAVE -d LEI"

else if userFormat is "aif" then

set acceptableTypes to {"public.aifc-audio", "public.aiff-audio"}

set formatString to "AIFF -d BEI"

else

return -- Protection against erroneous user modification

end if

-- Convert the cue

tell front workspace

try -- This protects against no selection (can't get last item of (selected as list))

set selectedCue to last item of (selected as list)

if q type of selectedCue is "Audio" then

set currentFileTarget to file target of selectedCue as alias

tell application "System Events"

set currentType to type identifier of currentFileTarget

end tell

if currentType is not in acceptableTypes then

set currentStart to start time of selectedCue

set currentEnd to end time of selectedCue

tell application "System Events"

set theContainer to path of container of currentFileTarget

set theExtension to name extension of currentFileTarget

if theExtension is "" then

set theName to name of currentFileTarget

else

set theFullName to name of currentFileTarget

set theName to text 1 through (-1 - ((length of theExtension) + 1)) of theFullName

end if

set newFileTarget to theContainer & theName & "." & userFormat

set fileExists to exists file newFileTarget

end tell

if fileExists is true then

display dialog "The destination file for the conversion already exists. What now?" with title dialogTitle with icon 0 ¬

buttons {"Cancel", "Replace"} default button "Replace" cancel button "Cancel"

end if

display dialog "Preparing to convert…" with title dialogTitle with icon 1 ¬

buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK" cancel button "Cancel" giving up after 3 -- You have 3s to change your mind

do shell script "afconvert -f " & formatString & userBitDepth & "@" & userBitRate & " " & ¬

quoted form of POSIX path of currentFileTarget & " " & quoted form of POSIX path of newFileTarget

set file target of selectedCue to newFileTarget

set start time of selectedCue to currentStart

set end time of selectedCue to currentEnd

set q name of selectedCue to "" -- Remove this line if you don't want to reset the cue name too

display dialog "Done." with title dialogTitle with icon 1 buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" giving up after 5

end if

end if

end try

end tell

Rich

[Alex Kliner]

You're absolutely amazing. Thank you. I just found your QLab v3 Template and am playing with it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Is there a tweak to the script that lets me retain the text I gave the cue in its previous format? It seems to be renaming it with the new filename. Which is not a huge deal. 

Thank you.

On Friday, November 16, 2012 at 3:10:07 PM UTC-6, Lucas Krech wrote:

[Alex Kliner]

Figured out it's just as easy to use SHIFT-CNTRL-N afterwards to normalize the names.

Thanks!

On Friday, November 16, 2012 at 3:10:07 PM UTC-6, Lucas Krech wrote:

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi Alex,

Side note: unless there's a specific reason not to do so, I'd recommend upgrading from 3.0.15 when convenient; there are several years of bug fixes available.

(mobile)

[Craig K]

I used to love peak, and was sorry to see it go, but now I use TwistedWave, and I can't imagine building a show with out it there. Great app for the toolbox.

Craig K.

[Jeremy Lee]

Ah, November 2012, I remember thee fondly. 

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