aubuti;510320 Wrote: > Foobar2k would be fine. As would the Perl script written by Robin Bowes > (search for flac2mp3.pl) or the batch transcoder part of dBpoweramp. > Note that earlier versions of Robin's script do not handle album art, > but I think there is now a patched version that does. Only other advice > is not to do the transcoding over a network (eg, to or from a music > library on a network drive) if you can avoid it. It is inevitable that > the transcoding will take a while, but no need to exaggerate it with > slow data transfers.
foobar2k will handle artwork? Will it handle it if it is in a separate file such as cover.jpg? I wish I knew that before I wrote a Perl script to copy my artwork from my FLAC library to my mp3 library. As far as transcoding over the network, I wouldn't get too hung up on that since it is a kick-off-and-forget-until-done process. The network bottleneck only becomes an issue if you have a super computer like a quad core - otherwise the processing becomes the limiting factor. I see this even using a dual core processor to encode mp3. Something to note for the OP - the resulting directory structure will only match your FLAC structure if your directory names are directly related to the tag names. This is because the tag information will be used to determine the target location, not the directory that the source files are in. Ultimately it doesn't matter since it is the tags that are used to build the database, but you should be aware of it. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74497 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
