You can also use dbPowerAmp to compress your FLAC files to a higher
compression ratio - useful if your existing FLAC encoder is not very
efficient. I was able to save a further 15% on FLAC files created by
my Hifidelio.
- Simon.
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Larry Truesdale Wrote:
I've tagged thousands of files with no rpoblems so far, but configuring
it can be complex. Did it merge artist and album on all the files you
transcoded?
no. for some reason it managed fine on most of them, but botched about
a third. This was out of about 850 albums
There are loads, depending on how technical you want to get.
The usual suspects are:
Foobar2000 - I've used this a lot, but discovered that it didn't do a
great job of transfering tags between FLAC and MP3
dbPoweramp - Never used it
flac2mp3.pl - This is what i use now, but does mean you have to
I use foobar and haven't seen any significant tag issues after
transcoding to mp3.
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dbPoweramp works well.
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zooropa320 Wrote:
I use foobar and haven't seen any significant tag issues after
transcoding to mp3.
I found it managed to add the artist and album names to the same field.
This caused my Archos AV500 to guess at the artist name (which it did
successfully) and put a '?' over the artist icon
@JohnC: I'd be interested to see how you're reading the FLAC comments.
I've been working on an album art downloader in C# (more as an exercise
in 2.0 than anything else). The bit-twiddling needed to decode the
comments was doing my head in so I ended up porting the relevant parts
of the java FLAC
Nothing wrong with the code route but I would also suggest Foobar2000 to
transcode from flac to mp3. I've used it with the -aps flag to create
great sounding vbr mp3s to play on my ipod. The Foobar UI and array of
features can be daunting initially but there are plenty of guides to get
you
sugarmonster Wrote:
@JohnC: I'd be interested to see how you're reading the FLAC comments.
I've been working on an album art downloader in C# (more as an exercise
in 2.0 than anything else). The bit-twiddling needed to decode the
comments was doing my head in so I ended up porting the
I'm not sure, but the already existing perl based flac2mp3 utility might
work on Windows, I have personally only used it on linux. Anyway thanks
for posting the code for your conversion utility.
flac2mp3:
http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3
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erland Wrote:
I'm not sure, but the already existing perl based flac2mp3 utility might
work on Windows, I have personally only used it on linux. Anyway thanks
for posting the code for your conversion utility.
flac2mp3:
http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3
I read that it does work for
radish Wrote:
To be fair, installing perl involves going to activestate.com,
downloading the installer and running it. It's no more complex than
installing VS2k5. But yes, the more code the better so thanks for
sharing.
I got as far as installing activestate but then wasn't really sure how
johnc_22 wrote:
radish Wrote:
To be fair, installing perl involves going to activestate.com,
downloading the installer and running it. It's no more complex than
installing VS2k5. But yes, the more code the better so thanks for
sharing.
I got as far as installing activestate but then
Here's some C# code my friend wrote to read the Vorbis comments. You
really just need to read the first 1K of the file.
This is based on the format spec here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html
public static FlacMetadata ReadComments(Stream flacStream)
{
I use a very nice (and cheap) utility called Anapod Explorer. See:
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/featpw.php
It adds an Explorer-like interface to Windows for managing your Ipod. I
find it much easier to use than ITunes. Allows you to easily copy files
to (and FROM) your Ipod to the
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Going a little off topic, I have also heard that DRM'd files use more
battery life than non-DRM'd ones. Never tested it though.
DAP review did a test:
http://www.dapreview.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.265
The drain wasn't that bad.
Tom
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Jason,
I have used MediaCoder (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder) under
Windows.
Good luck! What kind of car?
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Many threads on this. for example
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20672highlight=flac2mp3
Ceejay
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I use to have a perl job I wrote to transcode my FLAC to mp3 to use on
my iPod.
However recently I started using jriver's Media Center for syncing my
iPod and it handles on-the-fly transcoding of FLAC to mp3 for the iPod
(even uses lame). Sure the sync time takes a lot longer however once
you
You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to
make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/
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rudholm wrote:
You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to
make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/
True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you
use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher
bitrate files will
John Hernandez wrote:
True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you
use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher
bitrate files will allow fewer hours of listening on a single charge.
I had not considered that. Why is it so? And is this true
for
It will drain battery life more than compressed music.
Reason, more harddrive access. A FLAC file will have the harddrive
spinning longer than an mp3 file that is smaller.
Because of this, pretty much any player will suffer reduced battery
life for playing lossless over a lossy format (given
Not sacrilegious at all; merely practical. You have done the right thing
by starting with flac, though, as that means you will always have a
digital lossless 'master' copy that can be used as the source for
whatever other digital music formats may become popular, without having
to rip everything
Going a little off topic, I have also heard that DRM'd files use more
battery life than non-DRM'd ones. Never tested it though.
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just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to
convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
Cheers
Oli
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Understandable. Foobar isn;t the most intuitive program I've ever used, but I recommend it highly anyway for its flexability in batch transcoding FLACto MP3. Once you've got the list of files you want to transcode selected, right mouse click on them and select convert. You'll find the
oli wrote:
just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to
convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
you need to copy the lame_enc.dll files to the foobar directory. you'll
find more info on exactly what to do for that on the foobar site. Then
it is just a matter of
Fast Audio Converter is another option. It does batch processing so you
can do all of your files at once, and you can select the output
destination if different than the source location.
Works well and the output bitrate is selectable in CBR or VBR. Encodes
To/From other formats as well.
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Alternately, you can just point Foobar to thelame.exe file on your machine in the encoder configuration dialog.
Larry
On 2/1/06, Kevin Deane-Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oli wrote: just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
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