[LAU] Tag-preserving Flac to ogg/mp3 converter

[Tom Szilagyi]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> 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