JJZolx wrote: > JimB;242508 Wrote: >> Does anyone know of a way to simultaneously rip to FLAC and rip a second >> copy to mp3 to a separate directory for ITunes? Disk space not an >> object. > > This gets asked a lot. And I usually reply with the same advice. A > nicer way to do this is to just rip and encode in Flac and then use a > program or script that will create mp3 files automatically from the > Flac files. Ideally, you can mirror your Flac library in Mp3, > scheduling the script to run automatically once a day. > > Just one of the nice things about doing it this way is that Flac > encoding is very fast and generally adds nothing to the time it takes > to rip a CD. Mp3 encoding, on the other hand, is much slower. Doing > it in the background during off hours makes CD ripping faster. Also > easier... programs like MAREO can sometimes be tricky to set up and > difficult to troubleshoot when they don't work as expected. > > Do a search in these forums for "flac2mp3".
... or wait for me to pop up and say: http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3 :) R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
