AUDIOMASS(1)

NAME
audiomass - It is a wrapper audio conversions interface.

SYNOPSIS
audiomass [-h HELP] [-v VERSION] [-c COPYING] [-C CHECK] [-f FILE] [-d DIRECTORY] [-b BATCH [..FILE1 ..FILE2 ..FILE3 ..]] [-o DIRNAME]

DESCRIPTION
Audiomass is a command line wrapper that interfaces on differents audio codecs for multiple input data streams conversions. It can be easily implemented with other audio library codecs and currently supports: Flac, Lame, Vorbis-tools, Monkey's Audio, Shntool, FFmpeg, etc. For each input file, audiomass-cli writes to a filename based on the input filename, but with the extension changed to as appropriate to encoding.

OPTIONS

-f, --file
    Single audio stream conversion. If the (-o) option is not specified, write to the same source directory.

-d, --dir
    Converts a group of audio streams with the same format/extension contained in a directory. If the (-o) option is not specified, write to the same source directory.

-b, --batch
    Load a queue of audio streams even with different formats located in different positions in the user space. If option (-o) is not specified, Write the stream to same input file. If more than one stream is specified, they must either be separated to one or more white-space.

-o --output
    Write output streams into specified folder. Can be used in conjunction with the (-f), (-d) and (-b) options described above. If you want to save the outputs to a different folder, you might consider using this option.

-C --check
    This option checks the required dependencies by audiomass. Installed packages are marked with '..Ok', while non-installed packages are marked with '..Not Installed'

-h, --help
    Show a short help and exit.

-v, --version
    Show version and date and exit.

-c, --copying
    Show license and exit.

EXAMPLES

Convert a single file and write into same directory:

audiomass-cli -f '/MyDirName/SomeFile.wav''

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Convert a group of audio stream and put output stream into specified folder:

audiomass-cli -d /MyDirName/Music -o '/MyOtherDir/converted

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Convert a queue audio streams and put output stream into specified folder:

audiomass -b '..STREAM1' '..STREAM2' '..STREAM3' '...' -o /output/dir

SEE ALSO
flac(1), oggenc(1), oggdec(1), lame(1), shntool(1), wavpack(1)

AUTHORS
Written by Gianluca Pernigotto, Alias: jeanslack <jeanlucperni@gmail.com> . Homepage: https://github.com/jeanslack/audiomass

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2015-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.