It's a bit like that famous Wordperfect tech support call, except that I haven't had a power cut...
So, I have my whole collection of CDs as pristine FLAC files and I need to turn them into lovely MP3s so that I can put them on my iPod. I find Robin Bowes program and go to a page that is incomprehensible to someone whose only programming language is BASIC (and that was 25 years ago). So I browse the forums and find this useful thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16240&highlight=flac2mp3 I follow the instructions to the letter (I think): 1. Download and install PERL from activestate 2. Download and install FLAC 3. Download and install LAME 4. Download flac2mp3 from Robin's site Then I see some stuff about paths so I create a directory called flac2mp3 and dump into that flac2mp3, the unzipped lame directory and the unzipped flac directory. Then I get nervous about paths again so I move the contents of the flac program directory and the lame program directory into the flac2mp3 directory so that all the application files are sitting in the same place. Finally, I fire up a command prompt, change to the c:\flac2mp3 directory and type "flac2mp3.pl M:FLAC M:mp3" (without the quotes). All it does is open flac2mp3 in Notepad! Cue much swearing and playing around with M:\flac and M:\\flac to see if I have messed up the syntax. I give up now... can someone tell me what I have done wrong. PLEEEEEEEEEESE. Andrew -- Andrew B. ========================================================= SB3-> Benchmark DAC1 -> EAR864 valve pre -> ATC SCM50ASL active speakers... nice! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew B.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21422 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
