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PACPL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PACPL(1) NAME pacpl - Perl Audio Converter, a multi purpose converter/ripper/tagger SYNOPSIS pacpl --to <format> <options> [file(s)/directory(s)] DESCRIPTION Perl Audio Converter A Linux CLI tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to an- other. It supports the following audio formats: ======================================== 3G2, 3GP, 8SVX, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DSF, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA, FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, MAUD, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA, OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also extract audio from the following video extensions: ============================================================== RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM and WMV. Parallel Processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conver- sion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading & writing, service menus for KDE Dolphin/Konqueror, GNOME Nautilus script, and action scripts for Nemo/Thunar are also provided. OPTIONS -t, --to format set encode format for the input file(s) or directory(ies). you can see a complete list of supported encode formats by using the --formats option. -r, --recursive recursively scan and convert input folder(s) to destination format. -p, --preserve when recursively converting a directory, preserve the input folders direc- tory structure in the specified output directory. such as: pacpl --to ogg -r -p /home/mp3s --outdir /home/oggs in the example above, let's assume the directory structure was: /home/mp3s/Alternative /home/mp3s/Alternative/New /home/mp3s/Rap /home/mp3s/Country /home/mp3s/Techno/ the output directory will now contain: /home/oggs/Alternative /home/oggs/Alternative/New /home/oggs/Rap /home/oggs/Country /home/oggs/Techno with all files in each sub-folder converted to ogg. -o, --only format only convert files matching extension. this option is useful when you have a directory or batch of files with mixed audio types and only need to con- vert one specific type. -k, --keep do not re-encode files with extensions matching the destination extension. instead...copy them to the output folder, or skip to the next file. -j, --jobs number of simultanious jobs to run at once. the default limit is set to 4 in pacpl.conf. You can modify this value on the fly using --jobs=<num> or set it perminately in the configuration file -f, --formats show a list of supported encode/decode formats. -h, --help show the short help menu. -l, --longhelp display the complete list of options. --version show version and licensing information. USER OPTIONS --defopts 1/0 to turn off default encoder options use --defopts 0. this option gives you more control when using the --eopts command. defopts is set to 1 by default. you can also toggle this option in /usr/local/etc/pacpl/pacpl.conf. --eopts options this option allows you to use encoder options not implemented by pacpl. an example would be: pacpl --to mp4 --eopts="-c 44100 -I 1,2" YourFile.mp3 --dopts options this option allows you to use decoder options not implemented by pacpl. an example would be: pacpl --to mpc --dopts="--start 60" YourFile.ogg --outfile name set the output file name to name. --outdir directory place all encoded files in directory. --dryrun show what would be done without actually converting anything. this is a good way to trouble shoot, or to see what would be done without actually touching your files. --overwrite replace the output file if it already exists. --normalize adjusts volume levels of audio files. --nopts options this allows you to specify normalize options not implemented by pacpl --delete remove source/input file after the conversion process has finished. --encoder encoder specify an alternate encoder for the selected output file(s) you can see a list of supported encoders by using the following: pacpl --encoder format --decoder decoder specify an alternate decoder for the selected input file(s) you can see a list of supported decoders by using the following: pacpl --decoder format -v, --verbose show detailed information about the encoding process and what's actually being done. ENCODER OPTIONS --bitrate num set the bitrate to num. default is 128. this option does not apply to all formats. --freq num set the frequency to num. default is 44100. this option does not apply to all formats. --channels num set the number of audio channels in the output file to num. this option does not apply to all formats. --effect str see sox(1). this option only applies to the following: AIFF, AU, SND, RAW, VOC, SMP, AVR, and CDR --fcomp num set flac compression level to num. fastest -0, highest -8, default -2 1 = fast 2 = simple 3 = medium (default) 4 = high 5 = extra high, --acomp num set ape compression level to num. 1000 = fast 2000 = normal 3000 = high (default) 4000 = extra high 5000 = insane --oggqual num set ogg quality level to num. -1, very low and 10 very high, default 3 --spxqual num set speex quality level to num. 0-10, default 8 (use --bitrate <num> when using ffmpeg/avconv as encoder) --aacqual num set aac, mp4, m4a, or m4b quality level to num. default 300 --mpcqual str set mpc/mpp quality level to str. thumb low quality/internet, (typ. 58... 86 kbps) radio medium (MP3) quality, (typ. 112...152 kbps - default) standard high quality (dflt), (typ. 142...184 kbps) xtreme extreme high quality, (typ. 168...212 kbps) --ofmode str set off/ofr/ofs compression mode to str. normal, extra, and extranew modes are recommended for general use. available options are: fast normal (default) high extra best highnew extranew bestnew --ofopt str set off/ofr/ofs optimization level to str. specify the optimization level in the engine. In order to achieve optimal compression at all sample types, sample rates, and audio content, the core compression engine has the possibility to find the optimal values for its parameters, at the cost of slightly increased compression time only. The default recommended value is fast. do not use normal (or even high or best) for this parameter unless encoding time does not matter and you want to obtain the smallest possible file for a given compression mode. The dif- ference between the optimize levels fast and best (which is up to three times slower than fast) is very small, generally under 0.05%, but may be also larger in some rare cases. Note that the none optimize level is forced by the encoder to fast optimize level for the extra, best, highnew, ex- tranew, and bestnew modes. available options are: none fast (default) normal high best --bratio num set bonk down sampling ratio. default 2 --bquanl num set bonk quantanization level. default 1.0 --bpsize num set bonk predictor size. default 128 TAGGING OPTIONS note: tagging outside of the encoding process can only be performed on the fol- lowing audio types: MP3 OGG FLA FLAC --artist str set artist information to str. --title str set title information to str. --track num set track information to num. --year num set year/date information to num. --album str set album information to str. --genre str set genre information to str. --comment str set comment information to str. --taginfo file show tagging information for file. multiple files can be specified at once. RIPPING OPTIONS --rip num/all rip selected tracks separated by comma or all from current disc. pacpl --rip all --to flac pacpl --rip 1,3,9,15 --to flac --nocddb disable cddb. use this option if you do not want tagging based on cddb. --noinput disable cddb interactivity. this is enabled by default. --nscheme str set naming scheme to str. default is %ar - %ti available options are: %ar = artist %ti = song title %tr = track %yr = year %ab = album eg: --nscheme="(%tr)-%ti" --device device set device to device. default is /dev/dvd --cdinfo show cddb information for current disc. SEE ALSO sox(1) ffmpeg(1) lame(1) oggenc(1) oggdec(1) flac(1) shorten(1) faac(1) faad(1) mpcenc(1) mpcdec(1) mplayer(1) speexenc(1) speexdec(1) sndfile-convert(1) normalize(1) cdparanoia(1) opusenc(1) opusdec(1) wavpack(1) ffmpeg(1) mplayer(1) avconv(1) BUGS Report all bugs to Philip Lyons (vorzox@gmail.com) LICENSING This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un- der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FIT- NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. AUTHOR <<<<<<< HEAD Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Philip Lyons (vorzox@gmail.com) ======= Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Philip Lyons (vorzox@gmail.com) >>>>>>> cc4eb189828ef15228da02c14a39e484294126ec perl v5.42.3 2026-08-04 PACPL(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | USER OPTIONS | ENCODER OPTIONS | TAGGING OPTIONS | RIPPING OPTIONS | SEE ALSO | BUGS | LICENSING | AUTHOR
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