option to specify destination root

[intuited]

It would be nice to be able to specify a destination root, and have dir2ogg create the converted files there. I often want to convert files on-the-fly when copying them over from another drive or another server, and there's no convenient way to do that: currently it's necessary to copy them, then convert, which is like, totally inefficient.

Thanks for creating this useful tool! I would love to see it be generalized to be able to convert to other formats — the absence of a standard tool for audio conversion almost makes me want to use one of those "gooey" applications for this stuff.

[Gregory Eric Sanderson Turcot Temlett MacDonnell Forbes (gzou2000)]

Hi,

While looking around for some CLI app that would convert my whole music folder with different aduio file types, I stumbled on dir2ogg and was thrilled to see that it did exactly what I wanted, except for the fact that I couldn't specify a destination directory.

So, since it was coded in python (w00t !) and the script wasn't too complicated I modified it a bit and added 2 new options : --output-dir and --strip-path. You can go get my version of the script at http://github.com/gregory-sanderson/dir2ogg.

--output-dir does what you would expect, it moves all converted files into the specified directory. It even keeps copies the directory structure if you convert recursively. But, a slight problem that I discovered after testing a bit is that if you put a path like '~/music', python's os.path.normpath will transform it to '/home/user/music'. So, if ever you do something like dir2ogg --output-dir /path/to/media-player ~/music you'll end up with your converted files in /path/to/media-player/home/user/music. That's why, as a temporary measure, i also added --strip-path

--strip-path will remove all leading directories in the file path when placing converted files. Let's say for example that you have this directory structure :

music/file.mp3
music/folder1/file1.mp3
music/folder1/folder2/file2.mp3

and that you want to place converted files in the directory 'converted'. with --strip-path you'll get this:

converted/file.mp3
converted/file1.mp3
converted/file2.mp3

That's pretty much it ! Let me know what you think ;) I'm planning on expanding the functionality of --strip-path so that you can configure up to where you want to strip.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This sounds interesting. Do you still have the patch? Your github repository is down unfortunately.