Best FLAC Decode (& Encode) GUI for Windows?
Reply #11 – 2006-03-22 22:17:41
I use Catwalk.exe. It was made by Tangerine. It's very useful and flexible because you can set it to run a series of commands on some files stored in folders, and it will do it in sequence. It works really well. Here's a link to Tangerine's suite of software: http://tangerine.uw.hu/prog And here's the .ini file that I created to batch-convert a directory of cd images in wav format, to flac files with embedded cuesheets, tags, etc. [*.wav] REM The artist field is set by the @dir2@ variable. REM The album field is set by the @fname@ variable. REM All input files (.wav, .log, .cue) must be named in this format: album.extension REM and all the input files must be put in C:\wavs\artist\album\ (files). REM There must be a cuesheet file called "@fname@.cue" in each directory with the wav file. It will be used REM to add the EAC cuesheet as a vorbis comment to the flac file. echo "@file@" echo "@fname@" echo "@fext@" echo "@dir0@" echo "@dir1@" echo "@dir2@" echo "@dir3@" echo "@pdir0@" echo "@pdir1@" echo "@pdir2@" echo "@pdir3@" echo "@fpath@" REM Call flac: flac.exe --verify --replay-gain --delete-input-file --cuesheet="@fname@.cue" --tag=ARTIST="@dir2@" --tag=ALBUM="@fname@" --tag=YEAR=0000 --tag=GENRE=nothingyet --tag=COMMENT="CD Image" --padding=16384 -8 "@file@" REM Call Tag.exe to add the EAC cuesheet and extraction log as vorbis comments: Tag.exe -f "CUESHEET=@fpath@@fname@.cue" "@fpath@@fname@.flac" Tag.exe -f "EXTRACTIONLOG=@fpath@@fname@.log" "@fpath@@fname@.flac" REM ==================================== REM Write CSV of all albums processed REM ==================================== ECHO "@dir2@","@fname@",%DATE% >> "F:\FLAC Archive\CDList.csv" if not exist "F:\Flac Archive\@dir2@\@fname@" md "F:\Flac Archive\@dir2@\@fname@" move "@fname@.flac" "F:\Flac Archive\@dir2@\@fname@" move "@fname@.log" "F:\Flac Archive\@dir2@\@fname@" move "@fname@.cue" "F:\Flac Archive\@dir2@\@fname@" Try it out. It's great because you can rip a bunch of cd's during the day, while you're reading a book or something, and then run catwalk.exe to convert them to flac (or whatever) at night or when you're not home.