Yello all

What's the easiest and more importantly fastest way to transcode as follows:

FLAC + replaygain info -> Normalized Ogg Vorbis (i.e. with replaygain applied to music not to tags)

Ok, so a little explaination: I have all my music archived in FLAC format complete with replay gain info, but for my iRiver H340 I want to convert them to Ogg Vorbis. Easy enough you may think, however (to my knowlegde) the iRiver doesn't support the Replaygain tags so I'd really like to convert the files so that the replay gain is applied to the music before the Ogg convertion. It's not like I need the Ogg files for anything other than my iRiver so I don't mind it not being a "pure" copy.

I could do something like flac -> wav -> wavgain -> ogg, but since I'd quite like to encode files on the fly (converting them as I copy to the iRiver - as far as thats possible) it seems a bit much.

Any suggestions?

Appologies if this has been asked before - I couldn't find anything about it anywhere.

use foobar! apply replaygain info to your flac files and then transcode to vorbis, using foobar's diskwriter. somewhere under diskwriter-preferences, one is able to choose "use replaygain" or something like that. as destination directory you can choose your player - you are even able to create directories for each artist or album etc.

Wow! That was easy! Even does a bunch of other stuff I needed too - cool

And to think I was considering writing my own tool to do it - glad I asked instead - heh, gotta love foobar!

Nice one - cheers

oggdropxp also has settings which enable you to do this.

these settings, and more, are discussed in this thread.