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

[legg]

a batch that would convert all flac files in a directory to mp3?

CODE

for %%i in (*.flac) do [path\]flac.exe -dc %%i | [path\]lame.exe [lame options] - %%~ni.mp3
[pause]

BTW, the ~n is meant to remove the .flac extension of the filename, so that myfile.flac be converted to a myfile.mp3 file and not to a myfile.flac.mp3 file.

[Mr_Rabid_Teddybe...]

a batch that would convert all flac files in a directory to mp3?

CODE

for %%i in (*.flac) do [path\]flac.exe -dc %%i | [path\]lame.exe [lame options] - %%~ni.mp3
[pause]

BTW, the ~n is meant to remove the .flac extension of the filename, so that myfile.flac be converted to a myfile.mp3 file and not to a myfile.flac.mp3 file.

That works. Although not if there are any spaces in filenames. An a bit more aesthetically pleasing version (requires lame.exe and flac.exe in searchpath, e.g. System32) could be like the following. But no tags will still obviously be copied over. For that more advanced scripting will be required.

CODE

@echo off
title flac2mp3
for %%i in (*.flac) do flac.exe -dc %%i | lame.exe -V 2 --vbr-new - %%~ni.mp3
echo.
echo.
echo All done!
echo Hit any key to exit.
pause > nul
exit

[legg]

[quote=Mr_Rabid_Teddybear,Aug 23 2005, 09:52 PM]

CODE

@echo off
title flac2mp3
for %%i in (*.flac) do flac.exe -dc "%%i" | lame.exe -V 2 --vbr-new - "%%~ni.mp3"
echo.
echo.
echo All done!
echo Hit any key to exit.
pause > nul
exit

That should do the trick to include filenames with spaces.