[FFmpeg-user] [FFMpeg user] scripting help: find > xargs ffmpeg

[Dagfinn Stangeland]

I've tinkered with manpages and searches hunting for an effective way to
batch convert files using ffmpeg, specifically flac to alac.

The idea is to have flac files in a folder: music/flac/ and convert them to
alac and put the output files in: /music/m4a/
Schematically I was thinking searching for .flac files using find, pipe to
xargs that runs each file through ffmpeg.

This is as far as I've come:

find  music/flac/ -iname *.flac -print0 | xargs -0 -I sourcefile ffmpeg -i
> sourcefile -acodec alac -map_meta_data 0:0,s0 "`basename "sourcefile"
> .flac`.m4a"
>

The above takes care of the batch processing but I can't figure out an
elegant way to put the files in the separate folder. I can always find and
mv the files after the fact, but that feels so… crude;)

Dagfinn