Hi Warren, I guess you must be on holiday at the moment because my application to join the mp3encoder list has not been approved after a couple of days :^(. Plus I see that the list has diminished considerably in activity over most of this year, so are you not accepting new members prior to closing it down?
Anyway, assuming that I may get on the list soon, I was wanting to pose this question to the group: I was wanting to know from mp3 gurus if there is a way to preserve the id3 tag info on existing mp3s when downsizing/downsampling with LAME (or suggest another encoder)? I've tried looking to the mp3encoder list archives and found a posting where the guy had exactly the same problem as me (http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/mp3encoder/2001-January/001523.html), but he didn't get a satisfactory answer back then. Google also found another mail list (http://www.neowin.net/forum/ snip - URL too long) with the same story - again without a satisfactory answer. If there is another forum anyone can suggest I'll be happy to try there, too? The scenario is that I have a few thousand tracks burnt to a hard disk at very high quality 256kbs. I did it this way to then be flexible about what I did with them next. One of the things I now want to do is to downsample those tracks to something more like 112kbs to suit burning onto disk for a mp3-compatible car CD player. After googling and playing around I have discovered how to do the downsampling from the command line using LAME with suitable options. Then I discovered the shell script available, MLAME.sh to batch process the files instead of one at a time. However, in all cases the downsampling wipes the existing id3 info from each track. Any hints to how to get around that or pointers to where I might try to find the answer? Thanks. Regards, Gavin. _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
