On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
