Introduction

AIFF Interchange is a simple GUI program that lets the user import one or more AIFF files, and export them to WAVE or FLAC. (Note: Flac conversion is done using default settings)

The program is written in PythonCard.

Current Source Code

(this part is likely to change. When the release date gets closer, the files will be .tgz'ed and uploaded to the project site).

aiffinterchange.rsrc.py

{'application':{'type':'Application',
          'name':'Template',
    'backgrounds': [
    {'type':'Background',
          'name':'bgTemplate',
          'title':u'Copland AIFF Interchange',
          'size':(375, 247),

        'menubar': {'type':'MenuBar',
         'menus': [
             {'type':'Menu',
             'name':'menuFile',
             'label':'&File',
             'items': [
                  {'type':'MenuItem',
                   'name':'menuFileExit',
                   'label':'E&xit',
                   'command':'exit',
                  },
              ]
             },
         ]
     },
         'components': [

{'type':'StaticText', 
    'name':'StaticText1', 
    'position':(15, 196), 
    'size':(348, -1), 
    'alignment':u'right', 
    'text':u'Copland AIFF Interchange', 
    },

{'type':'Gauge', 
    'name':'progressBar', 
    'position':(10, 162), 
    'size':(353, 32), 
    'backgroundColor':(225, 217, 209), 
    'foregroundColor':(0, 0, 0), 
    'layout':'horizontal', 
    'max':100, 
    'value':0, 
    },

{'type':'Button', 
    'name':'cmdFlac', 
    'position':(174, 114), 
    'label':u'Free Lossless Audio (.flac)', 
    },

{'type':'Button', 
    'name':'cmdWav', 
    'position':(19, 114), 
    'size':(146, -1), 
    'label':u'Wave (.wav)', 
    },

{'type':'StaticBox', 
    'name':'StaticBox2', 
    'position':(10, 90), 
    'size':(353, 68), 
    'label':u'2. Select format', 
    },

{'type':'Button', 
    'name':'cmdBrowse', 
    'position':(260, 32), 
    'label':u'Browse...', 
    },

{'type':'TextField', 
    'name':'txtInputPath', 
    'position':(19, 35), 
    'size':(232, -1), 
    'editable':False, 
    },

{'type':'StaticBox', 
    'name':'StaticBox1', 
    'position':(10, 10), 
    'size':(353, 68), 
    'label':u'1. Select input file(s)', 
    },

] # end components
} # end background
] # end backgrounds
} }

aiffinterchange.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
__version__ = "$Revision: 1.5 $"
__date__ = "$Date: 2004/04/30 16:26:12 $"
"""

from PythonCard import model
import commands

class MyBackground(model.Background):

    def on_initialize(self, event):
        # if you have any initialization
        # including sizer setup, do it here
        pass
    
    def on_cmdBrowse_mouseClick(self,event):
        self.filesIn = commands.getoutput("zenity --file-selection --title=\"Select one or more AIFFs to convert\"  --multiple --separator=:")
        if self.filesIn:
            self.components.txtInputPath.text = self.filesIn
            self.filesInList = self.filesIn.split(":")
    
    def on_cmdWav_mouseClick(self,event):
        self.components.progressBar.max = len(self.filesInList)
        self.components.cmdWav.enabled = False
        self.components.cmdFlac.enabled = False
        for infile in self.filesInList:
            outfile = infile + ".wav"
            commandOutput = commands.getoutput("sox -t aiff \"" + infile + "\" -t wav \"" + outfile + "\"")
            self.components.progressBar.value+=1
            
            if (commandOutput.find("ERROR") != -1):
                commands.getoutput("zenity --error --title=\"AIFF Interchange\" --text=\"An error occurred:\n" + commandOutput + "\"")
                continue
        
        self.components.progressBar.value = 0
        self.components.cmdWav.enabled = True
        self.components.cmdFlac.enabled = True
        commands.getoutput("zenity --info --title=AIFF\ Converter --text=AIFF\ Conversion\ is\ complete.")

    def on_cmdFlac_mouseClick(self, event):
        self.components.progressBar.max = len(self.filesInList)
        self.components.cmdWav.enabled = False
        self.components.cmdFlac.enabled = False
        for infile in self.filesInList:
            commandOutput = commands.getoutput("flac \"" + infile + "\"")
            self.components.progressBar.value+=1
            
            if (commandOutput.find("ERROR") != -1):
                commands.getoutput("zenity --error --title=\"AIFF Interchange\" --text=\"An error occurred:\n" + commandOutput + "\"")
                continue
        self.components.progressBar.value = 0
        self.components.cmdWav.enabled = True
        self.components.cmdFlac.enabled = True
        commands.getoutput("zenity --info --title=AIFF\ Converter --text=AIFF\ Conversion\ is\ complete.")


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = model.Application(MyBackground)
    app.MainLoop()