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jaht

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How to burn an MP3 CD from Flac?
« on: April 18, 2004, 06:24:30 pm »

I would like to know if it's possible to burn a CD from my flac files to mp3 on the fly with MC10?

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Re:How to burn an MP3 CD from Flac?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2004, 06:44:14 pm »

I think not. MC is burlier at transcoding on the fly to Tivo and external devices. Part of the problem may be that to keep a burner's buffer full (to avoid underruns), the CPU would have to be a very fast transcoder. Maybe a 3 GHz P4 is, but I know my 700 MHz PIII isn't. On top of this, flac is not fully supported in MC until enc_flac.dll is written (which is in WIP AFAIK).

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Re:How to burn an MP3 CD from Flac?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2004, 07:36:19 pm »

I'd love this feature too, but I am not sure how possible it is, especially if you want to keep the quality high.  I was playing around with dBPowerConverter the other night and when I had it transcode from APE to Lame -alt-preset-extreme, it could only manage just over 4x speed (AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1 Gig RAM).  You'd definitely have to keep the CD writing speed to 1 or 2x in this case to keep the buffer full.  In light of this, I'm content with the current arrangement (convert-then-burn).
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Re:How to burn an MP3 CD from Flac?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2004, 02:48:48 pm »

What's everyone's preferred workflow for going from lossless (FLAC / APE, etc) to a CD of MP3s?  Right now I've been converting to separate MP3 files stored in a different directory, and then importing those into a new MC library.  This works, and keeps me from having to re-re-encode files if I want to burn a different CD with some of the same MP3s.  

The problem with this is that if I make any changes to the main APE library (ratings, etc), I don't know of any way to have these reflected in the MP3 library without either re-encoding the files and re-importing, or making the changes by hand.  Neither option is ideal.

I'd love if MC was able to support multiple files (lossless and lossy) for a single library record.  That way I could have a lossy MP3 version easily on hand to burn to CD, and all the info (ratings, etc) would stay in sync between the two (or more) files for that song.  Unfortunately, this idea hasn't met with too much support.

Any further suggestions for how to manage collections with both lossless and lossy versions of the same file?

--Tim
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Re: How to burn an MP3 CD from Flac?
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2004, 10:29:26 pm »

I would really like to see a method of synchronizing tags between lossless and a second format too!  Mainly to keep a version of all my files in lossless format and rip to mp3 etc for use with my iPod, change the rating etc on my iPod and sync those changes back to the lossless version.
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