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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:16:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081105171606.255506f7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811050912u27d19e36t909ceb2724961de3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:12:44 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:

> I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3
> encoder with suboptimal default settings.

Any decent program would let you adjust the MP3 settings.

> I would write a script
> myself. For flac decoding use (of course) media-libs/flac; for mp3
> encoding, media-sound/lame. You can probably chain them in a pipe,
> using flac -dc infile.flac | mp3lame <lameopts> - outfile.mp3 . Read
> lame's man page and write a shell (or perhaps python/perl) script.

You also need to extract the ID3 tags from the FLAC file and then write
them to the MP3 file.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I am Flatulus of Borg. Pull my finger.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 18:04 [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? Mark Knecht
2008-11-04 18:15 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-05  3:40   ` young sun
2008-11-05 17:12 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-05 17:16   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-11-05 17:50     ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-05 17:59       ` Eric Martin
2008-11-05 18:06         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-05 23:54           ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-07 20:17           ` Eric Martin
2008-11-05 18:12 ` Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008-11-05 18:46   ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-11-05 19:55     ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-05 20:13       ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-11-05 20:24     ` Paul Hartman
2008-11-05 23:20       ` Beau Henderson
2008-11-06  3:18       ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-06  4:55     ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-06  9:56       ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-07  1:12         ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-07  8:30           ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-07 13:55             ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-07 15:54               ` Paul Hartman
2008-11-07 17:00                 ` Mark Knecht
2008-11-05 20:08 ` Alex Schuster
2008-11-06  2:14 ` darren kirby
2008-11-06  3:14   ` Mark Knecht

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