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I was hoping for a freebie windoze application recommendation.


That'll work just fine on Windows as well. It, too, has pipes.

Or, it you prefer, you can download the simple command-line application that I wrote for converting music. It needs the LAME and FLAC binaries, but basically does the pipe for you, and also copies your tags across (well, the tags I use, anyway).

Or, probably even better for you, is to look at dBPowerAmp, which is reputedly very good at this kind of thing. I've never used it, however.
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