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

[Christian Lambert]

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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