Thank you for writing this handy utility. Would it take much effort to have the shell extension operate on more than one file (or better yet, one or more directories)?
You are welcome.
Before I released this version, I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to support multiple files.
Unsuccessfully as you can see…
I tried poking around the Autohotkey forum, but did not get it work yet.
This applies to both files and folders, so solving one, would solve both.
This little app is so easy and fast compared with opening heavy apps to just convert a file!
A shame I found it just now!
One small thing is that the selected output format isn’t very visable in the GUI on Vista.
Thanks Doctor.
I would be happy to try and fix if you can show me a screenshot.
I am on XP.
wow that’s very quick!
This is a screenshot of how it looks inside Vista (normal theme):
Hrm… you werent kidding… its completely not visible.
I guess they handle checkbox-buttons differently.
Let me check what I need to do - probably have no choice but to put the 3D attribute back to the buttons.
Maybe just bald the text of the selected button?
Yeah, well its a radio button, so I am not doing anything in particular when it is pressed.
Its just that on Vista it does not show the same shading that it shows on XP
I have added a configuration in the INI to show flat buttons, and defaulted it to NO, so that buttons are now 3D and hopefully, visible on Vista.
I have not yet uploaded it to the regular location - if you dont mind downloading it from here:
http://dannyben.com/downloads/FlicFlac.zip
Let me know if it looks ok, and i will release.
Ok?
Much better, I can see I actually clicking on it without glazing sideways on my LCD
New Screen:
Edit: almost forget to thank you for your quick fix
Thanks.
Version 0.30 uploaded.
FlicFlac 0.31 is released.
There is no visible change or new features, it is just recompiled with a new AutoHotkey compiler, since AVG antivirus reported a false positive with the old compiler.
Download here
VirusTotal report here
EDIT:
Hey, just noticed FlicFlac was added to the Renoise tools page. Thanks, thats nice!
Hey everybody,
Quick FYI.
I have moved my site from Wordpress to PHP.
I did my best to make sure all previous links from this thread and the Renoise tools page are still working, so if you find anything broken, please let me know.
FlicFlac Home is at sector-seven.net/software/flicflac
thanx excellent little tool!
mlon
Hey everybody,
As I found myself doing more and more converters and file processors (PDF splitters for example), I thought it is time to consolidate all of this into one completely extensible and customizable conversion tool.
So I have created File Blender.
It provides everything that FlicFlac provides (with the exception of context menu integration) and more.
It also comes with image converter and PDF/TIFF splitter joiner.
The main difference, is that this tool lets you add more actions and completely edit the command lines used for each of these actions.
I know this is not completely a Renoise / FlicFlac related post - but since it also has audio conversion, I thought I would post it here (and not in a separate thread), in case any of you prefer this tool over FlicFlac.
Important to note that if you do not need image conversion or any other action, you can easily remove them and be left only with audio conversion.
Great app. Love them small, right-to-the-point apps. They usually tend to get the “by the people - for the people” thing right most of the time.
I do have one suggestion though. Add an option to do parallel hybrid conversions(i.e. do step 2 of the current file and step 1 of the next at the same time). I believe that’s the easiest way to utilize dualcore processors to the max without special code and stuff.
Great app, thanks!
Yeah, fantastic app. Glad I finally found something to convert to convert from FLAC to MP3 on a PC.
I was just wondering though. If you’re still working on this, could you possibly update the version of LAME used in the MP3 encoding from v3.97 to v3.98, and also set the ID3 Tags to v2.4?
I wlil take a look, see if I can change - shouldn’t be a problem.
In the meantime, if you want a lot more control over the command line used to do stuff (and the executables), you may want to check my File Blender - it is sort of a descendant of FlicFlac - completely customizable, drag and drop interface to do all sorts of conversion, including what FlicFlac does.
Sweet. That’d be awesome if you could. It might be a good idea to make it so you can choose between ID3 v2.3 or 2.4 also by the way, as some people may still wish for v2.3.
And yeah, that File Blender app works great too, but really, the only thing I need an app like this for is converting FLAC rips to MP3 V0, so FlicFlac is fantastic, in how it works, and how small it is.
Ok,
Have downloaded Lame 3.98.2 - so check on that item.
Now, about your ID3 request, here is what I currently have - let me know if it is enough or if you have a proposed change:
The INI file lets you set the command line arguments (already present in the current FlicFlac version).
The current MP3 command lines are:
LameOptionsCBR =-b%IniMp3Kbps% --add-id3v2 --ta "%IniArtist%" --ty %ThisYear% --tt "%NameNoExt%"
LameOptionsVBR =-v -V %IniMp3VbrLevel% -b %IniMp3VbrRate1% -B %IniMp3VbrRate2% --add-id3v2 --ta "%IniArtist%" --ty "%ThisYear%" --tt "%NameNoExt%"
LameOptionsDec =--decode
So - is this enough for you to set whatever ID3 parameters you want?
Or did you mean something else?