garym;682225 Wrote: > Thanks Ron. I need to explore the VB mirror approach in more detail. > I've always done the conversion also with dbpa, but makes sense with > all my FLAC files already on the VBA. > > The only thing special I do in the dbpa conversion is redo the > ALBUM/TRACK RG tags (which is probably not necessary, notwithstanding > the fact that the resulting RG values are NOT identical to the FLAC > files RG values) and add a custom field that says "From FLAC" so when > these are mixed in itunes with my mp3/aac only files, I can easily find > them delete them all and easily replace them with any newer mp3 versions > I create (e.g., decisions to reconvert with newer versions of LAME or > more likely decision about wanting -V4 instead of -V2, etc.).
The VB flac2mp3.pl script adds an MD5 checksum tag to each generated mp3 file. When you remirror, it compares this tag with the MD5 checksum in the associated FLAC file to see if the music has changed and the lame transcoding needs to be redone. So if the mp3 files created by dbpa do not have an MD5 tag, the VB FLAC mirror may redo the lame transcoding even if it's not really needed. -- Ron Olsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92623 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
