If you want to transcode from Apple lossless to flac, I can't help you. For new rips (and re-ripping older tunes if you choose) EAC + Flac is a good choice. When setting up EAC you specify the parameters that determine both the tags (aka Vorbis comments) and the directory structure. The Slim Devices wiki configuration guide for EAC covers this nicely. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToRipping
Maintaining parallel trees is actually pretty easy. Robin Bowes has written a very nice, and free, perl script that does the job. It's called flac2mp3.pl logically enough. It has a command line interface, and you just specify the source (flac) and target (mp3) parent directories, and it will produce an mp3 directory with exactly the same structure as the flac directory. It has some nice options, like letting you specify the mp3 compression parameters, or just updating the mp3 tags after you've updated the flac tags, etc. I don't have the link handy, but search on this forum (or www.robinbowes.com) and you'll find. Be advised that there are at least 2 or 3 scripts called flac2mp3.pl. The others may be fine, but I definitely have no complaints with Robin's. If you need to do any subsequent tag editing, use a dedicated tagger like mp3tag (my fave) or tag&rename or foobar2000. Having 4 tools to do the work really isn't that inelegant, and the individual tools are really good at what they do. How many good mechanics use Swiss army knives? -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30888 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
