Audio utility needed

[mrzed]

I know there are a lot of media PC users here - so perhaps someone may know a utility that will work for me:

Just getting my HTPC up and running, and no surprise, I am finding that the audio aspect is more value to me than the video. I am ripping all my CD's to FLAC, and having one source for all the music is better than I even expected.

What I am looking for:

A utility to bulk transcode ALL of my FLAC files to MP3 for using on portable devices. Ideally, creating an exact mirror of the FLAC directory structure, and copying tags along with the files. Even better if it can use VBR mp3.

Too much to hope for?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Got $14 to support a good program? Use dbPowerAmp Music Converter

www.dbPowerAmp.com and their file selector add-on will use LAME to transcode to MP3 and will mirror the directory structure and preserve tags.

It also supports mass re-tagging of files based on the directory structure if your FLACs aren't all tagged the way you want your MP3s.

I used it to transcode about 500 CDs from FLAC to MP3 and it worked flawlessly.

 

[Nohr]

I use Frontah along with LAME and FLAC. It'll let you encode your FLAC files in to whatever quality MP3 you like.

I use these LAME "commandline parameters" to encode the highest quality VBR MP3:
-V0 --vbr-new

I believe Frontah will put the resulting MP3s in to the same folder the original FLAC is in. However I've only encoded one album at a time so I can't be certain.

 

[mrzed]

Thanks - I'll definitely check out powerAmp - more than happy to pay a modest rate for good software.