okay which is the easiest way assuming i have lame, eac and flac installed on my machine since i have not figured out how to make flac and mp3 together

unless someone nows how to set up EAC with mareo http://mareo.netfirms.com/ so it spits out a flac and a lame file together

Flac to lame mp3? Lamedrop or something like that. That's one of the great things about FLAC is that you just transcode it when ever you need to since it's a lossless codec. Do you need them both at the same time, right after ripping?

--Nathan

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=11267&hl=flac+to+mp3

It looks like lamedrop[XPd] doesn't know FLAC.

A mareo action line would be something like this:

flac NONE NONE FullyQualifiedPathToFlac\flac.exe "@source@" --output-name="@dest@"

This would put the flac file in the same dir as the mp3

--Nathan

the best solution would be to rip and then get a flac and a mp3 spat out into seperate directorys sorted by artist


i am none too sure of getting these command lines just now just ripping to flac and hopefully get it sorted out later


hope i don't run out of hard disc space

I was unable to figure out a way to get the MP3 and FLAC files in separate locations when using EAC and Mareo. I ultimately realized I preferred a two-step process:

Step 1: Rip & FLAC encode all CDs
Step 2: Batch transcode all FLACs to MP3, WMA, etc.

This was optimal for me since Step 1 is the most time-consuming and Step 2 slows down Step 1. Moreover, it's easy to kickoff Step 2 to run overnight.

Assuming you wish to batch convert an existing directory full of FLACs to MP3 using LAME you can use the following script (Win32). Just paste it into a .cmd or .bat file, modify the five environment variables to match your system, modify the LAME parameters to suit your needs, and run it.

Notes:
* This script only works with a single level hierarchy (all FLACs in %FLACDIR% with no sub-directories
* The MP3 files won't have ID3 tags

Hope this helps,
Keith

@ECHO OFF



SET FLACDIR=D:\FLAC

SET MP3DIR=D:\MP3

SET FLACEXE=D:\util\flac.exe

SET LAMEEXE=D:\util\lame.exe

SET LOGFILE=D:\Logs\FLACtoLAME.log



subst q: %FLACDIR%

subst r: %MP3DIR%



FOR /R "q:\" %%I IN (*.flac) DO (

	IF NOT EXIST "r:%%~pI" (

		mkdir "r:%%~pI"

		ECHO Created r:%%~pI

		ECHO Created r:%%~pI>>"%LOGFILE%"

	)





	IF NOT EXIST "r:%%~pnI.mp3" (

		ECHO Creating r:%%~pnI.mp3



		"%FLACEXE%" -d -c -s "%%I" | "%LAMEEXE%" --alt-preset extreme --silent - "r:%%~pnI.mp3"



		ECHO Created r:%%~pnI.mp3>>"%LOGFILE%"

	) ELSE (

		ECHO Exists r:%%~pnI.mp3

		ECHO Exists r:%%~pnI.mp3>>"%LOGFILE%"

	)

)



subst q: /d

subst r: /d



SET FLACDIR=

SET MP3DIR=

SET FLACEXE=

SET LAMEEXE=

great makes me realise i'm not the only one who can't get mareo working

No idea how to make up a or use script but gives me a few pointers.

i shall keep going with the flacs and then work out the over to MP3 stage while i am at it.

I started writing a FLAC to MP3 converter in VB until I found out dBpowerAMP Music Converter did what I wanted for free.

Also download the optional (still free) file selector add-on to do batch encodes.