SID to MP3 music file converter with Stereo panning

A sample script to convert sid files into mp3 with stereo panning, provided by CustardFlan.

Requires sidplayfp, sox, lame, exiftool and id3v2.

#!/bin/bash

#Set sidplayfp verbosity level
#spfpverb=v2
#spfpverb=q
spfpverb=v0

#Set the track to convert (in case you need to choose one before converting)
sidsubtrack=1

echo =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
echo SID to MP3 music file converter with Stereo panning, by Custard! SandS - 230922
echo =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

echo Removing previous files from the workspace...

rm -f left.wav i.wav right.wav d.wav id.wav cen.wav cenleft.wav cenright.wav cenfin.wav final.wav final-fade.wav
rm -f currfile1.txt cttitle.txt ctartist.txt ctcopyright.txt

echo Convert to SID...

for file in "$@"; do
  #sidplayfp -f48000 -p32 $file -w --info
  #sidplayfp -$spfpverb -f48000 -p32 -rr --delay=1 --digiboost -u2 -u3 -w --info -ols$sidsubtrack $file

  sidplayfp -$spfpverb -f48000 -p32 -rr --delay=1 -u2 -u3 -w --info -ols$sidsubtrack $file
  ls *.wav > currfile1.txt
  currfile1=cat currfile1.txt

  exiftool -s -s -s -Title $currfile1 > cttitle.txt
  exiftool -s -s -s -Artist $currfile1 > ctartist.txt
  exiftool -s -s -s -Copyright $currfile1 > ctcopyright.txt

  mv $currfile1 left.wav

  sidplayfp -$spfpverb -f48000 -p32 -rr --delay=1 -u1 -u3 -w --info -ols$sidsubtrack $file
  mv $currfile1 right.wav

  sidplayfp -$spfpverb -f48000 -p32 -rr --delay=1 -u1 -u2 -w --info -ols$sidsubtrack $file
  mv $currfile1 cen.wav

  echo Processing with sox to mix the result...

  sox left.wav i.wav remix 1v0.75 2v0.25
  sox right.wav d.wav remix 1v0.25 2v0.75
  sox i.wav d.wav -c 2 id.wav --combine mix-power

  sox cen.wav cenleft.wav remix 1v0.50 2v0
  sox cen.wav cenright.wav remix 1v0 2v0.50
  sox cenleft.wav cenright.wav -c 2 cenfin.wav --combine mix-power

  sox id.wav cenfin.wav -c 2 final.wav --combine mix-power

  sox -V4 final.wav final-fade.wav fade p 0 0 3

  #DEBUG:
  #read -p "PAUSE - To check the audio processed by sox..."

  echo Converting to MP3...

  lame -V0 final-fade.wav $currfile1.mp3

  fftitle=cat cttitle.txt
  ffartist=cat ctartist.txt
  ffcopyright=cat ctcopyright.txt

  ffyear=cat ctcopyright.txt
  ffcutyear=${ffyear:0:4}

  id3v2 -a "$ffartist" -t "$fftitle" --TCOP "$ffcopyright" --TYER "$ffcutyear" "$currfile1.mp3"
  #mp3tag -a "$ffartist" -s "$fftitle" -l "$ffcopyright" "$currfile1.mp3"

  echo Deleting temporary files from the workspace...

  rm -f left.wav i.wav right.wav d.wav id.wav cen.wav cenleft.wav cenright.wav cenfin.wav final.wav final-fade.wav
  rm -f currfile1.txt cttitle.txt ctartist.txt ctcopyright.txt

done

echo ----------------------------------------------------------

echo Done!

echo /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////`