Roland0 wrote: > See 'here' (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/HighQualityAudio) for a > ffmpeg audio guide, including quality produced: > > so you might want to use aac, as libvorbis seems to be missing from your > ffmpeg version. > > ffmpeg will also copy tags, and can do 'loudness normalization' > (http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#loudnorm), which might be a good > idea for your use case (unless you use replay gain and are sure all > tools in the transcoding process will honor it)
Thanks Roland - that's a useful ink. I'd used the experimental vorbis encoder, which seems to be strongly discouraged. Can these extra libraries and encoders be added to the compiled version by the end user, or is it only a build option? oggenc seems to do what I want - a 1-step converter from FLAC to OGG, which maintains any tags. I do have some single-track FLAC files in my collection, so tag preservation is useful, although most of my collection uses whole-album FLAC images with CUE files, and for these files all the tags, including replay gain tags, are in the CUE files, so tag preservation isn't required. I don't yet have many cue files with replay gain tags, but the author of XLD (the ripper I use on my Macbook) has recently provided me with an updated command line version, in response to a feature request*, that will add replay gain tags to cue files. So at some point I'll run that on all my whole library, and then re-create the OGG-specific cue files. *Not only is XLD a fantastic, free, ripper for the MAC, but I was astonished when the author added this new functionality for me within a couple of days. The updated source code is available in 'Sourceforge' (https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/), but the compiled version hasn't been updated yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110496 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
