[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-04 Thread sugarmonster
@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

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-04 Thread zooropa320
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

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-04 Thread johnc_22
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

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-02 Thread erland
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 -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage'

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-02 Thread johnc_22
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

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-02 Thread johnc_22
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

Re: [slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-02 Thread Robin Bowes
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

[slim] Re: Flac To MP3 - C#/.NET Version

2006-05-01 Thread ianwi
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) {