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