Here my 2 cts: You can use Perl to script the conversion and take care of copying ID3 tags., There's some perl modules taht suport ID3V1 and ID3V2 aldo last form is not fully suport. Perl is a simple language to learn and automate tasks like this.
If you're going to reencode try ogg as the new output format. It's got good quality under low bitrates bot dosen't suport the same tag types. If you have all the albuns into separate directorys and all tracks in wav format i can write a quick script to encode and tag all files, just give me the settings you need and i'll send you a perl program. Work's fine under linux and windoze machines. Cheers Filipe Valpereiro Quoting Gavin Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:52, Takehiro Tominaga wrote: > > From: Gavin Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [mp3encoder] mp3 downsampling > > Date: 29 Dec 2004 16:36:25 +0800 > > > > > Why do you think an encoder that preserves the ID3 tags when > > > downsampling mp3 (or even down from ogg or wav to mp3, etc) > > > gives a problem with encoder stability? I know little, but imagined > > > that it would involve only preserving the start/part of the file where > > > the ID3 is stored? > > > > It needs file io and seek. If the input/output is non-seekable file, > > we need some error handling, which is likely to be buggy. > > > > ID3 tags may be 2^31 byte. Handling such large data may lead a bug. > > > > And, there're these bugs in LAME4. > > > > > > If you think it is easy, why don't you write it yourself and send us > > a patch :) ? We always welcome such contribution. > > Sorry you took offense at my follow-up question. I didn't presume it > was easy I just asked "why?". As for contributing a patch, I said in my > last post, "I know little". I guess I will just have to re-rip (rather > than downsample, the 100 or so CDs I want on disk if I want smaller > files _and_ ID3 tags. Seems that I can't have both without doing that. > Groan :^( > > Regards, Gavin. > > _______________________________________________ > mp3encoder mailing list > [email protected] > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
