On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM Reino Wijnsma <rwijn...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hello Mark, > > On 2025-06-08T19:27:20+0200, Mark Filipak > <markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail....@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > I want archival quality. > On 2025-06-07T21:17:03+0200, Mark Filipak > <markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail....@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > ffmpeg^ > > -i "c:\Ashra, Correlations [1979] chapters.txt"^ > > -i c:\01.WAV^ > > -i c:\02.WAV^ > > -i c:\03.WAV^ > > -i c:\04.WAV^ > > -i c:\05.WAV^ > > -i c:\06.WAV^ > > -i c:\07.WAV^ > > -filter_complex > > "[1:0][2:0][3:0][4:0][5:0][6:0][7:0]concat=n=7:v=0:a=1[out]"^ > > -map_metadata 0 -map "[out]"^ > > -c libmp3lame -compression_level 0^ > > "c:\Ashra, Correlations [1979].mp4" > If you want to archive audio, you should use a lossless audio codec, > which libmp3lame definitely isn't! > > What's the origin of these 7 WAV-files and the chapter-file? Did you rip > the WAV-files yourself from a CD? If so, with Exact Audio Copy (EAC) by > any chance? > As your intention is to archive this album to one single file, I would > highly recommend you... > 1) Rip the CD to one single WAV-file (if you actually have the CD). Or > if your ripper supports it, skip the WAV-file and directly rip to FLAC, > WV, or TAK. > 2) I personally use TAK for audio archival, but please consult > https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,126205.0.html for you lossless > audio format of choice. > 3) Let the ripper simultaneously generate a CUE-sheet. This is the > recommended way to tag the archived audio. Chapters are for video-files > and the MP4-container is not meant for audio only. > 4) I can't remember if Exact Audio Copy was capable of directly tagging > the resulting single audio-file with the CUE-sheet, because it's been > quite some years since I last used the ripper, but otherwise I'd use > Mp3Tag (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/). With it you can add the CUE-sheet > afterwards, or even cover-art and all sorts of tags if you want. > > If you only have those 7 WAV-files, then you could use FFmpeg for > concatenating and compressing (except for TAK), but the tagging I would > leave to Mp3Tag. > > ffmpeg -i c:\01.WAV [...] -i c:\07.WAV -filter_complex > "[0:0][1:0][2:0][3:0][4:0][5:0][6:0]concat=n=7:v=0:a=1" > -compression_level 12 "c:\Ashra, Correlations [1979].flac" > ffmpeg -i c:\01.WAV [...] -i c:\07.WAV -filter_complex > "[0:0][1:0][2:0][3:0][4:0][5:0][6:0]concat=n=7:v=0:a=1" > -compression_level 12 "c:\Ashra, Correlations [1979].wv" > ffmpeg -i c:\01.WAV [...] -i c:\07.WAV -filter_complex > "[0:0][1:0][2:0][3:0][4:0][5:0][6:0]concat=n=7:v=0:a=1" -f wav - | > Takc.exe -e -pMax -ihs - "c:\Ashra, Correlations [1979].tak" > > (-map_metadata 0 is unnecessary, because WAV doesn't support tags) > wav supports tags and chapters. at least demuxer does. > > -- > Reino > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
