Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
My experience so far is that most GUI multimedia-encoding programs
offer far less options than a command-line program. Sometimes the only
choice is codec and bitrate, and the bitrate sometimes comes in a
drop-down menu of "low", "medium", "high".

I have done many video encodings with mplayer, and in this case
adjusting settings yield drastic benefits to quality/bitrate.

> You also need to extract the ID3 tags from the FLAC file and then write
> them to the MP3 file.
I don't care about these, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to
preserve them.