Samuel Penn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've currently got most of my music in Ogg Vorbis format, which is
> all nicely tagged, and working fine in Amarok and on my iAudio.
> However, it needs to be re-ripped, since the quality isn't high
> enough.
>
> I've decided I'd like to rip everything this time around in a nice
> lossless format, so I can transcode to other formats (and whatever
> quality) as required. Does anyone have any suggestions on what
> format to use, and how to transcode them?
>
> WAV is nice and simple, but doesn't store any meta data. I started
> doing this, but I have to create text files with the metadata in,
> and parse those when creating Vorbis or MP3 tracks, otherwise the
> end result has no meta data.
>
> FLAC seems to store meta data, which saves me a lot of effort.
> However, my initial attempts to transcode to MP3[1] (I haven't tried
> Vorbis yet) give me a file with no meta data. This is with ffmpeg.
>
I would use flac. There is a very useful utility called flac2mp3 which
can do the conversion including copying the meta-data over.
http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3
There is also an utility called flac2ogg which looks like it should do
the same thing to ogg.
There is a fare amount of talk about keeping your music library in
multiple formats on the slimdevices forums at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/
I also seem to remember the mention of a fuse filing system for linux
that allowed on the fly conversions, but I cannot remember any more
details than that.
Kevin.
