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

[Josh Coalson]

check out http://easytag.sourceforge.net/

it doesn't do the whole flow but it may make it easy to
script what you want to do.

Josh

--- Robin Pollard <robinpollard at onebox.com> wrote:
> 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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