Not sacrilegious at all; merely practical. You have done the right thing by starting with flac, though, as that means you will always have a digital lossless 'master' copy that can be used as the source for whatever other digital music formats may become popular, without having to rip everything all over again (as described here: http://blog.tomtebo.org/programming/flac2mp3_py.html).
There are different programs available depending on whether your slimserver machine is running on Windows, Mac or Linux, and in fact there are a number of scripts that will do the job. I've tried a few, and the one that works best for me is one written by Robin Bowes: https://projects.robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3. I personally have my CDs all ripped to flac on my Linux (Debian) box, then I convert them to MP3 for use on my iPod using Robin Bowes perl script. Assuming your FLAC files are in good shape (i.e., they include tags), this is probably all you need. It is very easy to use; running the command "flac2mp3 flac mp3" looks in the directory 'flac' and converts all the FLAC files it finds into MP3 files in the directory 'mp3', recreating all subdirectories as needed, to create a mirror of your FLAC files in MP3 format. Simple, works great, should run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, as it is a perl script (like SlimServer itself). I have something in the neighbourhood of 500 CDs ripped to FLAC. Converting them to MP3 was just a matter of time; it is not fast (at least not on the 700Mhz machine that holds my music collection), but you just run the script, leave it for the weekend, and you'll have all your FLAC files converted to MP3. After that, just run the script again whenever you add a new CD or change a tag, and it updates your MP3s. Whenever you run it, it checks to see whether the MP3 file already exists, and if so goes on to the next, so updates are relatively quick (a new CD takes about 1/2 an hour to be encoded on my machine). -- BBB jmusante Wrote: > Hello, > > I know that this might seem like sacrelidge to some of you but now that > I have converted our CD collection to FLAC my wife has some concerns > with portablity. She understands the conversion and likes the > Squeezebox but wants our collecton to be more portable (ie. move to the > car, use when working out, bring to work). I have suggested an Ipod for > the ease of use. Now I need to now if there is anyway I can convert > these FLAC files to MP3 easily? > > Any help with this would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jason -- bbb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bbb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5045 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
