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 1KxmgA-0001av-LY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:00:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88A69E03F9; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD5E03F9 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k27so85531hsc.2 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:59:42 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Ol3mvekl7t9WC4uARXFJ/CD7nX1lCywPxtLg+cWFFcw=; b=hlK0H2UZnWmbkv+vIwZaFKNkDLbDhBXGUXpu1dP3Htj58XAtUYMANyP/SsgCfKCPTK PuM+oATrC0+/ryk1ptEGHSqdhqW0X7oKw+9BXDT390RQVPJ9XA8Pp79NWMUkSPu40uBZ os75AfQsuQnsa0DpZbR/h6alCkQGwl0cupEp8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FFS0ubsedyuccmzO+BH66eExPf+ntpxYqsYfCbmmFXXM6Lakf5BV4ErX7zWxQ5ibsO qd9mNXriy/taqK2N5f54nWNOjauVJ11iSRkhKvX82YivlvWTmmbR4gDKBOVSJu0dFf5e fqRZa1HxrZMpHdZsL7NmCARCwvblFPMkkxvsk= Received: by 10.142.255.14 with SMTP id c14mr566099wfi.296.1225907982094; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.30.21 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:59:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:59:42 -0500 From: "Eric Martin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811050950y8a8b9d4o4ef58d5fa05aaa0b@mail.gmail.com> 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> <38af3d670811050950y8a8b9d4o4ef58d5fa05aaa0b@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bbb637c6-af2a-472b-acfc-ab52fa3078be X-Archives-Hash: 946ad741acfa66c11dd13ed83862f902 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 wrote: > 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. > >