From: Kevin Olemoh <darkintent@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T09:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Audio conversion in Windows, FLAC to MP3, etc

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You could try the scripts here:http://code.google.com/p/flac2any/

Personally I plan on writing a converter program sometime in the not to
distant
future as an exercise to (re)introduce myself to C++ but that is
another mailing list.


On 12/20/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
>
> djlewis wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts on how to do this in Ruby?  I've tried hooking to the
> > dbPowerAmp DLL but there are problems that seem kinda inscrutable (see
> > message http://tinyurl.com/y9r86h). Too bad, because that's what I use
> > interactively, and it seems pretty good.
> >
> > Any other ways to do audio conversions in Ruby that people recommend --
> > general-purpose conversion libraries for Windoze, scripting interfaces,
> > etc?  FLAC to MP3 is the one I most want, with flexibility in the MP3
> > parameters.  But it would be nice to have a bigger set of formats.
>
> IMHO this isn't really a good application for Ruby directly. Better to
> interface with a library dedicated to this purpose. Which reduces Ruby's
> role to that of a simple script to submit files to a native-code
> conversion
> library.
>
> --
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com
>
>

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