Transfer and transcode music to mp3 player?

BitJam

I used Amarok-1.x for almost all my music needs for many years. I've finally ditched kde-3 and I'm now looking for another app that will make it easy for me to transfer music to my mp3-players. I need transcoding to mp3 from ogg and flac.

There seems to be half a dozen apps for playing my music files but I don't know of any besides the older Amarok that make it real easy to transfer (and transcode if needed) files to mp3-players.

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

if your mp3 player is an ipod you can use gtkpod
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BitJam · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I'd seen gtkpod but I use plain old players that look like a usb drive to the OS. I can' believe I'm the only person here who uses them.

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

this works ok for me for cli transcoding: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210042

I actually went in and changed the lame command to V0 right in the perl script because by default the script uses one of the predefined lame presets which I don't personally like.

My only problem was that some of my tags didn't transfer ... but I think that was because they were version 1 ... but I'm not sure on that.
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BitJam · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:06 am Post subject:

Thanks. I'm using Gnome's SoundConverter followed by EasyTag. I'm surprised that Amarok was the only program that did all of this automatically when you transferred music to the mp3-player.

RaraRasputin · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:51 pm Post subject:

This summer there was a GSoC project which implemented transcoding for amarok2. It will be merged into amarok git soon.
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