flac to mp3, without gui and without temp wav file Options

[AlexanderTG]

hi

is it possible to transcode from flac to mp3 without using any of the available gui's and without creating a wave file from the flac file first and then converting that wave file to mp3.

i would like to understand how this can be done (if it can be done).

Ax

edit-----------
basically, what command line could be used to do this? im guessing i would need to make use of the stdin and stdout?

Thanks

This post has been edited by AlexanderTG: Aug 23 2005, 19:59

[tycho]

Sure it can be done in a win32 console window (Start | Run | cmd.exe)
Make sure flac.exe and lame.exe are in one of the directories in the %PATH% variable (or specify full path to them):

CODE

C:\> flac.exe -d --stdout myfile.flac | lame.exe --preset fast standard - myfile.mp3

[snookerdoodle]

is it possible to transcode from flac to mp3 without using any of the available gui's and without creating a wave file from the flac file first and then converting that wave file to mp3.

Sure it can be done in a win32 console window (Start | Run | cmd.exe)
Make sure flac.exe and lame.exe are in one of the directories in the %PATH% variable (or specify full path to them):

CODE

C:\> flac.exe -d --stdout myfile.flac | lame.exe --preset fast standard - myfile.mp3

I'll just add that your mp3's will be missing tags from your flac files if they had them. AFAIK, the only way to get them out is with metaflac...

Mark