Thanks Matt
I've had some success scripting the process of finding flac files and
converting them to MP3 in a mirror location. Based on this I think
scripting the cue file tweak will be straightforward.
The step I'm struggling with at the moment is the actual conversion. I
started off with a 2-step conversion: using flac to convert to stdout
and then lame to convert to mp3:
Code:
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flac --decode --stdout test.flac | lame --preset extreme - test.mp3
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This works, but I'm trying to do better because 1) tags get lost, as you
suggested, and 2) it's quite slow, and I wondered if a 1-step process
would be quicker. Unfortunately lame doesn't understand flac files
(hence the need for the first step). I've read of a version that's
built with libsndfile which should understand flac, but evidently
pcp-lame isn't built with this option.
ffmpeg was suggested earlier, but unfortunately pcp-ffmpeg doesn't seem
to be able to create MP3 files, and I don't know why or how to fix it.
Any advice would be gratefully received. I assume the lack of an MP3
encode is a licensing issue, so maybe another compressed format would
suit my use case - OGG perhaps.
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