SadGamerGeek wrote:
> First of all let me say how great flac2mp3 is. I don't know how I'd
> manage to keep dual file hierarchies of flac & MP3 in order without it
> (and I have made a donation!).

Thanks for the donation - it all helps.

> 
> Running both flac & lame on my modest server is quite slow though, so
> I'd like to be able to set it to do no more than is necessary and thus
> finish each run as quickly as possible.
> 
> I seem to amend my (flac) genre tags reasonable often, and I like to
> keep any changes reflected in my MP3s. Therefore a tagsonly run is the
> order of the day. As this doesn't find new albums though, I'd also need
> to follow it up with a normal run of the script to do the transcoding of
> those new albums. Am I missing something here? If not, would it be
> possible to have this sort of logic to do it all in one go:
> 
> 
> Code:
> --------------------
>     
>   if dest mp3 file exists
>   if source flac newer than dest mp3 file
>   just update tags
>   endif
>   else
>   transcode flac file to new mp3 file
>   update flags
>   endif
>   
> --------------------
> 
> 
> I may well have missed an obvious way to do this with some of the
> command line options......

Unless you've found a bug, that's *exactly* what flac2mp3 should do (and
the logic is pretty much as you've suggested).

R.

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