Can whipper also save the audio file to another file format while ripping?

[mainrs]

I am ripping a bunch of audiobooks and would like to have them both in FLAC and Vorbis Ogg. Is it possible to tell whipper to do it at the same time? Similar to how I can specify multiple output formats in other tools like RubyRipper.

[tombay]

Whipper rips from the cd media into .wav format. The flac conversion is done through whipper/program/flac.py.
If you want to you can edit the file (with su access and knowledge of the python module hierachy)
flac.py spawns a thread.
This thread does check_call(['flac', '--silent', '--verify', '-o', outfile,
'-f', infile])
the infile is the name of the wav input (e.g. /tmp/tmp32tawm9b.whipper.wav)
The outfile is the destination (e.g. /data/tom/Downloads/Music/Montaigne/making it!/_Montaigne_making it!_02_embodi3d.flac.part)
So what it is doing is calling the linux command flac.
If you have a command for converting to ogg you can add a second command to the flac.py program.
Lets assume you have ffmpeg.
(e.g. like:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i /tmp/tmp32tawm9b.whipper.wav -c:a libvorbis -b:a 64k test.ogg)

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diff whipper/program/flac.py newwhipper/program/flac.py
17a18,19

    check_call(['ffmpeg', '-hide_banner', '-y', '-i', infile, '-c:a', 'libvorbis', 
                '-b:a', '64k', outfile.replace(".flac.part", ".ogg")])

Of course the correct solution would be add options to the cd rip command to support output format.
Maybe the whipper-team might think about it.

[mainrs]

I've read to similar requests and comments (I found them only later on) and the whipper team probably won't support this officially. The program is meant to rip the data in lossless. If someone wants to convert it afterwards, that's post-processing and should be done by them!

I'd like to thank you for the detailed explanation though! In my case I always want to convert the data into OGG. I just added a line that spawns the converter right after the FLAC command!

[xmixahlx]

You should consider opus instead which has way better low bitrate performance.

I batch encode flac from whipper to opus for mobile, etc.

[tombay]

I believe opus is a lossless codec. I use Sonos gear which does not support opus.
As Neil Young says "dont want my mp3" (Drifting Back off psychediluc pill)

[tombay]

Sorry I neant lossy %-(