On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Frank Barknecht <fbar@email-addr-hidden> 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
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