audio/flac2mp3 20041223nb12 NetBSD

With the cost of hard drive storage falling under $1 USD per GB, storing audio in a lossless format is now inexpensive and practical. The FLAC codec is an OpenSource and Free software of very high quality. The FLAC format supports meta-info as ID3v1 tags or OGG comments. FLAC even has plugins for popular audio players such as XMMS and WinAMP. This script also helps with the generation of MP3 files from FLAC, whilst preserving the tags. This way you can easily convert an album from FLAC to MP3 for playing on a mobile audio device. You will need LAME installed and in your $PATH. Using the script is simple:

\* cd /path/to/directory/with/FLACS
\* flac2mp3 \*flac

After transcoding, you will have matching, tagged MP3 files in the same directory. Note: Only use this script on flac files that you trust to have non-malicious tags (ie, ones that you've created yourself).