oconnellc;416685 Wrote: > Also, because of how I play music throughout my house (a different > stereo set-up, using Control 4), I need to maintain an mp3 version of > my entire library. Does anyone have a good way to manage multiple > versions? I am envisioning something that I could script that would > just do everything in a first pass, and then run nightly and recode any > differences that it finds. There is an excellent Perl script called, sensibly enough, flac2mp3.pl that you can find on Robin Bowes' site: www.robinbowes.com. It does exactly what you're asking for. Earlier versions didn't convert album cover art, but I think the latest one does. Another option for your initial transcoding is to use dBpoweramp, which is an excellent program for ripping/burning/transcoding/etc (www.dbpoweramp.com).
As for your FLAC/ALAC issue, I can't think of any clever tricks. Just doing the grunt work of deleting duplicates album by album. You don't need to get them all under a single organized directory hierarchy, but I think it will make your life easier down the road if you do. And you might as well do it as part of process of weeding out duplicates. For example, going through your ALAC files you can do the following: Is it a duplicate of a FLAC? 1) yes ---> delete the ALAC copy 2) no ---> transcode to FLAC, put FLAC version with other FLACs, and delete ALAC copy Yes, SC can transcode the ALAC to FLAC, but why not get rid of ALAC once and for all? Especially since you don't need to re-rip anything. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62563 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
