Ripping music questions

[Silent Ph03nix]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 16:28 -0500, Silent Ph03nix wrote:
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>> Ok, I recently bought a 500GB external HD (firewire, but also capable of
>> USB) to rip all my and my wife's CDs onto.  So, I'm going to rip them
>> preferably to FLAC (or possibly wav if necessary) so I have lossless
>> copies of the CDs that if the CD ever gets scratched or lost or
>> whatever, I can just re-create the CD at original quality.  Ok.  That's
>> easy enough.  What I have questions about is taking those files, either
>> FLAC or WAV and converting them to OGG and MP3 formats.  Yes, I have to
>> have MP3 as both my and my wife's car stereos only play MP3, not OGG and
>> we're not replacing them, not to mention the portable MP3 players my
>> wife and daughter have that they aren't replacing (mine plays OGGs). 
>> What I want to know is how do I convert these files while keeping and/or
>> creating the ID3 tags for the .mp3 files as well.  I prefer to have
>> complete and accurate ID3 tags on all my files so they appear correctly
>> in the car stereos etc.  What's the easiest way to accomplish this?
>>
>>     
>
> I would guess Sound Converter does the job. http://tinyurl.com/2tz6kv
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>   
First, I apologize for sending the first email HTML, I forgot to set my
Thunderbird to plain text rather than auto. 

Second, a little more detail on what I'm trying to do.  I would prefer
to do this with scripting, rather than a program as I have MANY CDs that
I will eventually want to convert from whatever I rip to (FLAC or WAV)
to MP3 with correct ID3 tags.  I haven't found a way to get correct ID3
tags in my (admittedly  brief) testing from FLAC and WAV to MP3. 

Thanks in advance,

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Ph03nix
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