all-to

Introduction

All-to is a script in a set of media utilities centered around automating jobs that involve invocations of ffmpeg. The purpose of all-to is to transcode all of the files in a given folder to a codec of the user's choosing.

Usage

usage: all-to.py [-h] [-f] to

Convert all audio files in folder to a specified type.

positional arguments:
  to          Codec to transcode into (file extension)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -f          Folderize output

Example: all-to ogg

This will convert all audio files in the current working directory to Ogg-Vorbis and output them in the same folder. It does not delete the input files.

Example: all-to -f mp3, all-to mp3 -f

This does the same, converting to mp3, but instead places them in a subdirectory by the same name as the current working directory, but with .mp3 appended to it.

Notes and limitations

• Any files that are already of the type specified will not be processed.
• There is not yet any way to pass any additional arguments to ffmpeg. Defaults will be used.
• Only the current working directory is used as input. There is not yet any way to specify a directory for input.

Installation

1. Make a directory to contain binaries and scripts if you do not already have one (e.g. c:\bin). Let this be called the bin directory.
2. Make sure the bin directory is in the search path.
3. Build or download ffmpeg and ffprobe, and place the binaries in the bin directory.
4. Configure your system to regard .py files as executables.
5. Modify the script to search in a directory that you prefer, or os.getcwd() to use the current working directory.