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transcoding FLAC to MP3 ... an easy enough script


I rip all of my music to FLAC, and then I've got a Ruby script that scans for new/updated FLAC files and then transcodes them to MP3, copying the tags.

This means that I've got two copies -- the lossless FLACs and the MP3 files. I generally only ever listen to the MP3 files, but the FLACs are there in case I want to re-encode to a different format or bitrate,

Both the FLACs and MP3s stay on my fileserver, where disk is relatively cheap, and the MP3s get sent to the empeg.
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-- roger