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[Cleo]

I recently found myself with some video songs and audio files of other type than mp3. I wanted them to convert them to mp3, so I came up with this.

First of all you will need to install some packages. To do this, do:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse ffmpeg

Now you should be ready to go.

Go to your home directory, then .gnome2 directory and then nautilus-scripts directory. There you create new document, and name it MP3 Convert. Go to properties of this file, click permissions tab, and tick "Allow executing file as program" check box. Now edit it and insert the following code:

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/bash
the_file=$1
if [ "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" != "file://$HOME/Desktop" ]; then
if [ "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" == "x-nautilus-desktop:///" ]; then
files_path=$HOME"/Desktop"
else
files_path=`echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" | sed -e 's/^file:\/\///; s/%20/\ /g'`
fi
else
files_path=""
fi
new_file=`echo $the_file | cut -d'.' -f1`


ffmpeg -i "$files_path/$the_file" -f mp3 -vn -acodec copy "$files_path/$new_file".mp3

if (( $? != 0 )); then
zenity --error --text "Failed converting. The following could have happened:\nYou don't have ffmpeg installed;\nThe file you used is not supported;\nOR\nThe file has already been converted." --title "Error";
fi

Now, you can convert any video or audio file to MP3 by right clicking it, selecting Scripts and MP3 Convert! If anything does not work, post here.

[Nobbit]

Works great, thank you, Cleo.

For idiots like me it might be helpful to know that "your home" (as stated above by Cleo) and "home" in ubuntu are two different things. So you got to go to home/'user'/

to view the .gnome2 folder, you hit ctrl+H

[Cleo]

Nobbit's right. Just updated the script to support converting on Desktop too.

[Nobbit]

Errrrm - I updated my file and now it won't work anymore

Failed converting. The following could have happened:
You don't have ffmpeg installed;
The file you used is not supported;
OR
The file has already been converted.

But ffmpeg is installed

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse ist schon die neueste Version.
ffmpeg ist schon die neueste Version.

So, what did u do?! 

Edit: Cleo did nothing. Everything works well, besides the fact that .oga files are not to be converted.