Steve's Software Trek » Music http://steve.kargs.net Open Source Software Haven Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:49:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Convert to MP3 Konqueror Service Menu http://steve.kargs.net/linux/convert-to-mp3-konqueror-service-menu/ http://steve.kargs.net/linux/convert-to-mp3-konqueror-service-menu/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:17:22 +0000 skarg http://steve.kargs.net/?p=110 I wanted an easy way to convert music to MP3 from various formats under Konqueror in KDE on Kubuntu Linux.  I found an interesting post about creating a KDE Service Menu which got me started in the right direction.  However, I didn’t like the way ffmpeg converted to 64kbps MP3 quality and the bad sounding results regardless of the bitrate settings that I chose.  I tried lame, and was quite pleased with the results.  I also didn’t like the way the service menu used the entire filename without stripping the dotted extension, so I copied another service menu perl example.  My “Convert to MP3″ service menu script goes into the following location:

/usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

File convertmp3.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=audio/*
Actions=convertToMP3

[Desktop Action convertToMP3]
Name=Convert to MP3
Exec=lame -V2 %f "`echo %f | perl -pe 's/\.[^.]+$//'`.mp3"

Enjoy!

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