Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:12:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>>    Thanks. I'll give it a try and report back any results. I guess I'm
>>>> only moderately confident as I'm not clear how the group of MP3 files
>>>> keeps the original track order. Are those written into the MP3 file by
>>>> the converter? Where does it get the info if I've removed the track
>>>> numbers from the file names. Is it already in the FLAC files?
>>>
>>> It doesn't, track order is a feature of a CD, not a bunch of mp3s. If you
>>> want to keep the files in track order, leave the numbers there, that's
>>> what they're for.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Neil Bothwick
>>
>> Then there's something going on elsewhere. Using soundconverter I
>> converted a few CDs removing the track numbers from the names. I sent
>> the CD over to a Windows box and played them using iTunes. I note that
>> the tracks are displayed in the original order. It's possible, I
>> suppose, that since the artist and title directory names are in place
>> that iTunes looked up the track order from the CD database, but I
>> assumed it was actually embedded in the file by soundconverter.
>> soundfile-info cannot read MP3 file so I don't know what too would
>> tell me that the data is in the file or not.
>>
>> I'll do the same experiment with your renaming and see what happens.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Mark
>
> Track number can be stored in the ID3 tag of MP3 files (as well as
> total number of tracks on the album, and disc number for sets).
>
>
OK. Now, with 20,000 FLAC files to convert the track number needs to
be removed from the name and stored in the ID3 tag field.

Are there tools that can actually do this reliably? So far none of the
GUI based ones I've tried actually work across the directory
hierarchy. I assumed not when I asked the question originally thinking
maybe a command line script?

- Mark