I've used a tweaked and patched version of Robin Bowes' excellent flac2mp3 Perl script for a number of years now and it's great at converting my CD- and DVD-sourced 44.1kHz and 48kHz 16-bit FLAC tracks to mp3.
It does also work when you fire it at high resolution sources, but the mp3s that Lame generates won't play in Windows Media Player, for example, so they're clearly not as compatible as they ought to be. I haven't gone through the hassle of loading them into iTunes to sync onto the iPods to see how they fare there yet, but I'd like to have my shadow mp3 library as compatible as possible, which means ensuring that it plays in WMP whether I like it or not.
The obvious solution seems to be to tweak flac2mp3 so that when it encounters a high sampling rate or high bit-depth file it engages Sox first to transcode down to 16/44.1 or 16/48 depending on the sampling rate of the source file.
This is where it gets beyond me as I've never delved into Perl coding at all!
Does anyone out there have both the Perl skills and the interest to take a look at this?
It does also work when you fire it at high resolution sources, but the mp3s that Lame generates won't play in Windows Media Player, for example, so they're clearly not as compatible as they ought to be. I haven't gone through the hassle of loading them into iTunes to sync onto the iPods to see how they fare there yet, but I'd like to have my shadow mp3 library as compatible as possible, which means ensuring that it plays in WMP whether I like it or not.
The obvious solution seems to be to tweak flac2mp3 so that when it encounters a high sampling rate or high bit-depth file it engages Sox first to transcode down to 16/44.1 or 16/48 depending on the sampling rate of the source file.
This is where it gets beyond me as I've never delved into Perl coding at all!
Does anyone out there have both the Perl skills and the interest to take a look at this?