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With the cost of hard drive storage falling under $1 USD per GB,
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storing audio in a lossless format is now inexpensive and practical.
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The FLAC codec is an OpenSource and Free software of very high
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quality. The FLAC format supports meta-info as ID3v1 tags or OGG
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comments. FLAC even has plugins for popular audio players such as
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XMMS and WinAMP. This script also helps with the generation of MP3
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files from FLAC, whilst preserving the tags. This way you can easily
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convert an album from FLAC to MP3 for playing on a mobile audio
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device. You will need LAME installed and in your $PATH. Using the
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script is simple:
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* cd /path/to/directory/with/FLACS
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* flac2mp3 *flac
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After transcoding, you will have matching, tagged MP3 files in the
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same directory. Note: Only use this script on flac files that you
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trust to have non-malicous tags (ie, ones that you've created
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yourself).
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