On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:51:35 Kevin Bagust wrote:
> 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
That works just great, thanks.
> There is also an utility called flac2ogg which looks like it should do
> the same thing to ogg.
I haven't tried this one yet, but hopefully it'll be much the same.
> There is a fare amount of talk about keeping your music library in
> multiple formats on the slimdevices forums at
> http://forums.slimdevices.com/
Plus talk on how to tag classical music, which always confused me.
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