On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:12:44 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > >> I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3 >> encoder with suboptimal default settings. > > Any decent program would let you adjust the MP3 settings. My experience so far is that most GUI multimedia-encoding programs offer far less options than a command-line program. Sometimes the only choice is codec and bitrate, and the bitrate sometimes comes in a drop-down menu of "low", "medium", "high".
I have done many video encodings with mplayer, and in this case adjusting settings yield drastic benefits to quality/bitrate. > You also need to extract the ID3 tags from the FLAC file and then write > them to the MP3 file. I don't care about these, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to preserve them.
