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Topic: batch SHN -> FLAC? (Read 2615 times) previous topic - next topic
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batch SHN -> FLAC?

Short question: where's the Linux tool to convert SHN files directly to FLAC, skipping any intervening (WAV) data creation?

Longer, detailed grovel: OK, maybe I bet on the wrong horse, but I've got 500GB of my CDs on HD, in Shorten (.shn) format  . I want to transcode them to FLAC, on my Linux/i386. There are no metadata fields, just about 100 directories, each with about 20 "CD" subdirs, each with about a dozen SHN files, named 0...N (eg "12"). I have a MySQL database filled with the metadata, keyed to the path, so I just need a Linux tool that can convert the SHN files to FLAC, regardless of metadata. The server is a measly P3/550MHz/512MB with 4 160GB 5400RPM EIDE drives, running Debian 3.0r1 (and some "unstable" packages). I can write a script to walk the directories, but I don't want to use the existing Linux "shorten" and "flac" tools. If I can skip the SHN->WAV and WAV->FLAC conversions, and go straight from SHN->FLAC in one conversion, I'll save about 50% of the time, which will be considerable to R/W 500GB even at the EIDE bus bandwidth of about 4MBps (probably about 2 days solid). I wish Linux "sox" would do this, but it supports neither FLAC nor SHN. Where's the transcoder?

batch SHN -> FLAC?

Reply #1 –
Shntool is just what you're looking for.