Hi all,

Using Multi frontend, which transcoding method is better to get best quality:

1. Converting: ape, flac, wav, mp3 ==> mp3

A. On-the-fly transcoding - through a pipe.
or
B. Use intermediate wav files when transcoding


2. wav codec.

A. where from to get it.
B. which version.
C. How and where to install.
D. what is the windows defult.

3. Any known bugs for Multi frontend ?

Thanks in advance

Every stream needs to be decoded before encoding. IF you only save decoded output, you can save it, for example, to wav, and encode it to whatever you want. If you encode it "on-the-fly", you are also decoding the file, but instead of saving it to wav, you are encoding it to some other file. The result is exactly the same.

I believe that you've essentially asked, and been given plentiful explanation for, this already.

You can choose to send data from the decoder straight to the encoder, or you can choose to send it from the decoder to an uncompressed file (typically WAV) and then to the encoder. Either way, it is the same data.

I've been using Multi-frontend regularly for over two years; I've never found a bug or had any problems.

Hi esa372,

It isnt so easy as I thought.
I have some errors like: tag problems

" tag.exe" is not recognazed as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Press any key to continue ... "

0. How to solve this problem.
1. How to keep the original Tag.
2. what is tag.exe
3. are the tag settings are the same as EAC.

thanks

How many times do we have to say it? We're not children; we don't need you to colour-code everything for us!

tag.exe is a program for adding APEv2 tags to existing files. You shouldn't need this for creating MP3 audio files.

ok. ok.

I have found tag.exe.

the problem is: How to set it for Id3 tag v2 for mp3 files.

thanks

tag.exe doesn't support writing ID3v2 tags.

how to solve this Id3 V2 tag problem?

Any alternative ?

What's the problem?

As far as I can see, Multi frontend's GUI has an option to add tags to the resulting files. Failing that, you can add LAME's own tagging switches to its command line.

ok. I am asking how to set IDv2 + IDv1 tags to the transcoded mp3 files:

1. tags added from the original file
2. tags added by me.

what are the commands line for that, in the case of :
1. multi frontend commands
2. LAME commands.

Thanks

Generally I only use ID3v1 and APE tags; I've never needed to get ID3v2 tags with Multi-frontend, so I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question.


However, if you use foobar2000 (v0.9x) to do your transcoding, you can set the option to write both ID3v1 & ID3v2 to the output file. (File>Preferences>Advanced>Tagging>MP3>Preferred Tag Writing Scheme...)