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

["Eric Martin" <freak4uxxx@gmail.com>]

IIRC, there is a fuse filesystem in portage that does exactly that. I
don't have any experience with it but it warrants a look.

On 11/5/08, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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