[Flac-dev] Re: FLAC to mp3 batch converter?

[Robin Pollard]

Christian,

Sorry I don't think I was so clear with my explaination of what I
am doing.  Your requirement flac -> mp3 is really a special case
of ripping, if you think of the entire chain....

normal ripping:
CD -> wav -> mp3

Your case is
[CD -> wav ->] flac -> wav -> mp3

Which is equivalent to:
flac -> wav -> mp3

I need this too and am proposing to use a ripping tool and simply
replace the cdparanoia stage with a flac decode.  (and replace the
CDDB with ID3info from the flac file)  I was going to use rip for
this as I am familiar with the script having patched in flac support
and I get all the general options and multiple encoder support from
the script.

RGDS,
Robin.

---- Christian Lambert <clambert at sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually what you are describing it just "ripping" which I already
> do
> with "grip" the nice GTK frontend for ripping into flac or mp3.
> 
> I filed a bug directly with grip to have them update the command
> line
> for flac, but oterwise it works real great to encode CDs directly
> 
> into flac format.  It uses cdparanoia's library to do the ripping
> then puts the id3 tags into the filenames,etc...
> 
> If grip isn't added already on the flac webpage as a supported
> gui-frontend
> it should be. 
> 
> What was I looking for is just the flac to mp3 script that takes
> my ripped CDs into flac that I could convert into mp3.  Another
> use
> of that is that sometime I am building compilations for my car
> mp3
> player and I could just convert on the fly to mp3 from flac using
> the script to build my custom cd.   
> 
> Thanks again for all your input!
> 
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Robin Pollard wrote:
> 
> | Hi Christian,
> | 
> | There is a perl script called rip (rip.sourceforge.net) that
> I was
> | looking to alter for a similar requirment (flacs at home -> mp3s
> | on laptop).  I patched flac support into it for the encoder a
> couple
> | of months ago.
> | 
> | At the moment it uses cdparanoia to rip from CD but should not
> be
> | hard to add flac as an alternative 'ripper' to make wavs and
> then
> | you can use the encoder of your choice on the wav.
> | 
> | If I get time to write the patch to rip from flac to mp3 I will
> send
> | you a copy but don't hold your breath :)
> | 
> | Cheers,
> | Robin.
> | 
> | > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:32:04 -0800 (PST)
> | > From: Christian Lambert <clambert at sgi.com>
> | > To: flac-dev at lists.sourceforge.net
> | > Subject: [Flac-dev] FLAC to mp3 batch converter?
> | > 
> | > 
> | > I'm just wondering if someone wrote a perl script to convert
> | > a directory with flac files into mp3 and preserving the id3
> tag
> | > from flac to mp3? 
> | > 
> | > I have two harddrives where I keep my favorite CDs in flac
> and
> | > others in mp3 but 
> | > when I get tired of them, I move them into mp3 and rather than
> | > popping the
> | > original CD in, it might be easier to just convert from flac
> to
> | > mp3 directly.
> | > 
> | > Please cc me on your reply.  clambert at sgi.com
> | > 
> | > Let me know
> |  
> | 
> 
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