From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxmWn-00014R-HS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:50:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C04D2E04BA; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BE0E04BA for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so72694yxp.46 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:50:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=u4uGuhG99Zic6uXArFxCyVmNZYqfM6pjB8ywNgvx6gQ=; b=nTyofHfmi4TSUJFVsc67R8I90SqjbAt6GkTwy1W0+yvnVlirxMbwC4wMsy/d3Vs735 VnvFPbaVQVGdOzNhdKVq0Uu4AgSAnVyrJUzYn5Nh8ZVBvTURjj7M2BkUP84jG5Qco+vv /hcNtCyULmimBMhu9H4cyevGEj+E6tORo4IE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Q7YrzikNCZ3NfQ4BZaH6kObSDVmz7+W6x67u8or1yYVxHZg1HIRh+7uz5ql7BBTXvc 1CXu8kPhi2rGBbCfrWeLVm75AkFWE5P3fEMGxKIfv1GEfvdtPjPwKtrgNczmexrPgdjg jo9u+P2vPjdUjO9t92i+83fTwb+Ew+sm0l2K8= Received: by 10.90.86.10 with SMTP id j10mr931446agb.6.1225907446407; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:50:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.81.1 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:50:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811050950y8a8b9d4o4ef58d5fa05aaa0b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:50:46 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? In-Reply-To: <20081105171606.255506f7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> <38af3d670811050912u27d19e36t909ceb2724961de3@mail.gmail.com> <20081105171606.255506f7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d2c1dc3d2de24e49 X-Archives-Salt: 7c0d48d9-f919-4b10-a53a-77603f74eca0 X-Archives-Hash: 755300f1e682073673f076bc96fd12e2 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick 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.