Hi all,

I've been a lurker here forever - awesome website!

I've got a question that's just slightly different than others already asked here. I searched quite a bit, so I hope this isn't a duplicate.

I have a few hundred albums ripped with EAC (to WAV and LAME mp3). I then encoded the waves to Monkey's Audio (and removed the WAV files).

I've pretty much given up on Monkey's Audio since (by the looks of MA's forums) the developer seems to have disappeared. I'm also using a Mac and a Linux box now as much as my Windows machines and while I can listen to "APE" files in Linux now, there are no encoding/decoding/tagging/etc tools for Linux or Mac.

So I'm converting all my APE files to FLAC files quite easily with "Frontah" (as suggested elsewhere in these forums).

Sorry. I'm rambling. I'm recovering from major back surgery and highly mediated at the moment! Doh!

That's the background, here's the question. Does anyone know if it's possible to take my new FLAC files and convert (a copy) to mp3 and then burn the resulting mp3's on a CD? I've got an mp3-cd player in my car and I really hate to store both FLAC and mp3 files on my computer just so I can conveniently burn mp3 CD's for my car.

I know there's a FLAC plugin for Nero, but it looks like that is just for encoding from one format to another - you can't automatically say "burn all these FLAC files as mp3 files".

I'm probably being lazy (hey, I'm in pain. I'm allowed to be lazy!), but I know all the individual tools are there - I just don't know of an "automated" way to do what I want.

Comments? Thoughts? Suggestions?

Aaron

I am 99% sure there are no program out there that does that in one operation.
You first have to transcode from flac to mp3, then burn the mp3 files to a data CD!

Solaris

You can use Frontah to convert from FLAC to MP3.

I think the tool nearest to your requirements is dbpoweramps CDwriter and Converter Might take a couple of mouse clicks and make sure you download the all the required codecs.

Thanks for the comments everyone. For now I'm looking into the dbpoweramp option. I think my biggest roadblock is processing horsepower. I CAN batch convert to mp3 and then burn those mp3's to a CD in two separate steps, but that basically means I start step one before I go to bed and then do step two when I wake up. If I could wake up with the CD ready to go in the morning, that would be perfect.

As it stands, converting a few hundred mp3's from FLAC files definitely takes some patience on my 400Mhz machine. (stupid cheap workers comp people only paying about 75% of my salary while I'm recovering from surgery). Hopefully soon I'll be able to spring for a machine closer to 3Ghz and this whole process with be much, much faster.

Thanks for the input. If anyone else has anything to add, I'm still listening. :-D

Aaron

Universal Frontend will do this for you.You can burn the resulting mp3s with whatever prog you prefer.

http://unifront.boereck.de/index.html

Edit - Link added