Subject: Re: [LAU] Tag-preserving Flac to ogg/mp3 converter

From: Tom Szilagyi <tomszilagyi@...> · Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 8:33 am

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Frank Barknecht  wrote:

quoted text> Hallo,

>

>  I generally rip CDs I buy to Flac to listen to them at my PC. jack

>  (the other one) does a good job with ripping and also tags files

>  accordingly from FreeDB lookups. Now to listen to some of my Flac-CDs

>  on my portable player, I'd like to compress them a bit more and encode

>  them to Ogg or MP3 - my player supports both. (Actually it supports

>  flac as well, but it has only 2GB.)

>

>  So now I'm looking for a tool to help me mass convert my flacs. I can

>  convert the files to ogg just fine e.g. with ecasound or so and some

>  scripting or the flag2ogg tool, however the problem with that aproach

>  is, that all meta-tags get lost!

>

>  Does anyone know of a command line tool to convert flac to ogg/mp3

>  which also converts the meta-tags?
Not a command-line tool, but Aqualung has a nice interface for ripping

CDs directly to FLAC (among others), tagging files with CDDB or

CD-Text metadata. Aqualung also has a file exporting feature which

allows files to be recoded to MP3 (among others), preserving metadata

as much as possible.
Tom

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