chill wrote: > 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: -------------------- > > > flac --decode --stdout test.flac | lame --preset extreme - test.mp3 > -------------------- > > > > 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 encoder is a licensing issue, so maybe another compressed > format would suit my use case - OGG perhaps.I was converting to ogg vorbis - > the ogg encoder can read flac natively so I could do that in one step in most cases. Some of my source files were not flac though and I had to work out different strategies for those.
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