Comments on: FLAC -> MP3 http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/ Code, Technology, and Ramblings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dave Feucht http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Dave Feucht Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:20:15 +0000 http://www.illusoryfollies.com/2007/04/28/flac-mp3/#comment-874 oh, oops, some of that got lost in the posting... everything below -b should have double hyphens, and I had stuff in brackets after them, which I realized disappeared. those are the options to set the ID tag info, they are (in order), title, artist, album, year, track number and genre :) oh, oops, some of that got lost in the posting…

everything below -b should have double hyphens, and I had stuff in brackets after them, which I realized disappeared. those are the options to set the ID tag info, they are (in order), title, artist, album, year, track number and genre :)

]]> By: Dave Feucht http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Dave Feucht Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:17:35 +0000 http://www.illusoryfollies.com/2007/04/28/flac-mp3/#comment-873 Some useful options for lame: -h (high quality) -v (tells it to do variable bitrate) -b 192 (sets the average bitrate in this case, or the bitrate if you're doing constant) --tt --ta --tl --ty --tn --tg :) Some useful options for lame:

-h (high quality)
-v (tells it to do variable bitrate)
-b 192 (sets the average bitrate in this case, or the bitrate if you’re doing constant)
–tt
–ta
–tl
–ty
–tn
–tg

:)

]]> By: Andrew Flanagan http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Andrew Flanagan Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:46:58 +0000 http://www.illusoryfollies.com/2007/04/28/flac-mp3/#comment-869 Dave -- I had *thought* that the ffmpeg package was actually used LAME (which I've heard is the best). I was going to take a look and compare speeds on these... However, the interesting thing is that since I ran this script, the updated version of ffmpeg (at least the ebuild for Gentoo) no longer supports mp3 natively. So... the new solution (that would definitely be using LAME) would be something like: flac -d -c FLACFILE.flac | lame -V2 - output.mp3 Thanks! :-) Dave — I had *thought* that the ffmpeg package was actually used LAME (which I’ve heard is the best). I was going to take a look and compare speeds on these… However, the interesting thing is that since I ran this script, the updated version of ffmpeg (at least the ebuild for Gentoo) no longer supports mp3 natively. So… the new solution (that would definitely be using LAME) would be something like:

flac -d -c FLACFILE.flac | lame -V2 - output.mp3

Thanks! :-)

]]> By: Dave Feucht http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/comment-page-1/#comment-865 Dave Feucht Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:05:30 +0000 http://www.illusoryfollies.com/2007/04/28/flac-mp3/#comment-865 I'd recommend using LAME to encode them (you can find OSX binaries or you can compile it yourself), and do them 192 or 256k variable bitrate, you end up keeping the quality but getting smaller filesizes because it will use lower bitrates for parts of the music that have less information. A lot of online sellers are starting to do this (eMusic, Amazon, etc...). I'm not entirely sure if LAME will automatically grab the ID tags from the FLAC files, but it at least has commandline options to set them at encoding time, so you could do something similar to that last script to pull out the ID tags and stick them in the commandline to LAME :) I’d recommend using LAME to encode them (you can find OSX binaries or you can compile it yourself), and do them 192 or 256k variable bitrate, you end up keeping the quality but getting smaller filesizes because it will use lower bitrates for parts of the music that have less information. A lot of online sellers are starting to do this (eMusic, Amazon, etc…). I’m not entirely sure if LAME will automatically grab the ID tags from the FLAC files, but it at least has commandline options to set them at encoding time, so you could do something similar to that last script to pull out the ID tags and stick them in the commandline to LAME :)

]]> By: Diane Feucht http://illusoryfollies.com/flac-mp3/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Diane Feucht Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:15:15 +0000 http://www.illusoryfollies.com/2007/04/28/flac-mp3/#comment-807 Wow andrew... that was very exciting. I wish I knew what it all meant. :) Wow andrew… that was very exciting. I wish I knew what it all meant. :)

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