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Topic: Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods. (Read 2572 times) previous topic - next topic
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Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods.

Hi there.

I have a FLAC library (EAC versus own CD collection) and wish to create a V0 mirror of it so that I can use it for a couple of portable devices. Simple enough.

My method was originally going to be to use Foobar to convert, generating a new folder structure as it goes for the new mp3 files, all in one go. This is all good and works just fine, however there is one snag - album art (folder.jpg) does not survive the journey (understandably, as I didn't do anything to make it do so).

Short of manually copying each folder.jpg into the corresponding folder in the V0 library's folder structure, which I am not prepared to do, is there another way of doing this?

My current thought is to create a copy of the entire FLAC library and simply convert the copied FLACs to mp3. Result being same library/file structure with the artwork files etc. still present, and all the FLACs replaced by mp3s. But this may take time (an extra 10-12 hours to make the initial copy) and is going to be unnecessarily disk-intensive I feel. Is this my best bet or is there a smarter way?

I don't really want to just 'convert on the way to PMP' as I want to get rid of silences before bonus tracks and stuff like that in the lossy library (using mp3directcut, not re-encoding). It's also unclear to me what happens to replaygain values etc. in such a process, and no replaygain (album gain), no go.

Thanks in advance
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Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods.

Reply #1 –
Foobar does have a tool to copy cover art. In the Other section of Converter you can specify files to copy to the destination folder structure:

Sadly it can't copy folders.

Another method is if you keep the original folder structure when transcoding is to use the Synchronization tool of Total Commander and filter on folder.jpg.

What i'm missing is the embedding functionality. I have a high quality hqcover.[jpg/png] file in each of my folder and a lower quality folder.jpg in 600x600 resolution compressed into JPEG resulting in ~100KB each and like to embed them into the transcoded files aswell. Why is this useful? Say i don't like to copy whole albums to my DAP but i still like to have cover arts. Currently i have to load all transcoded files into Foobar again and run batch embed. It would be so much better if converter could do this automatically.

Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods.

Reply #2 –
um...



edit: heh, too slow. but at least my screenshot also shows you can now transfer embedded art as well. darkbyte, you need to update.

Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods.

Reply #3 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
but at least my screenshot also shows you can now transfer embedded art as well. darkbyte, you need to update.

Oh.  Thanks!
 

Converting FLAC library to MP3. Keeping art and such. Methods.

Reply #4 –
That'll do it - looks like I must have missed that menu when going through the preferences. It did seem like it should be there.

Thanks, the speedy response is much appreciated.