Converting FLAC to MP3
When it comes to music, I get FLAC versions of my favourite songs and listen to these on my desktop with my Audio Technica ATH-A900′s. However, it becomes troublesome when syncing my music to my iPod (which sadly lacks FLAC support). Until funds become available, in which case I can upgrade to a better media player, I have been working to try and find an easy way to convert from FLAC to MP3, using freely available tools.
Ultimately, I would like to find a solution that works with foobar2000 and the iPod manager plugin, which would allow it to transparently convert from FLAC to MP3 when syncing to my ipod. Until I work out how that would be possible, I’ve found a way to quickly convert individual songs using FLAC and LAME, whilst preserving tags using TAG.
Place flac.exe, tag.exe and lame.exe in the same folder, and use the following commands:
FLAC --decode --stdout song.flac | LAME -V2 --vbr-new - song.mp3 TAG --fromfile song.flac song.mp3
Nifty. Now it wants me to spam crap so that it’s not too short a comment. Blah, etc.
Oh, at least the facebook integration works.