= flac2mp3

== DESCRIPTION:

flac2mp3 is meant to, as the name implies, convert FLAC files to MP3 files

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Will convert a file from FLAC to MP3 format, natch.
* Not *only* is the song data converted, but so is the metadata!
* Options:
  * silent running
  * delete the FLAC after conversion
  * MP3 encoding (defaults to --preset standard)
* Reads options from YAML config file, ~/.flac2mp3

Currently operates on one file at a time. To convert more, try something like

  for f in *.flac; do flac2mp3 "$f"; done

or

  find . -name '*.flac' -exec flac2mp3 {} \;

If neither of those commands will work for you, try using a different OS.

== SYNOPSIS:

  $ flac2mp3 flac_filename
  $ flac2mp3 flac_filename --silent
  $ flac2mp3 --meta flac_filename mp3_filename
  (or)
  $ metaflac2mp3 flac_filename mp3_filename
  
  or, if you insist
  
  require 'flac2mp3'
  
  Flac2mp3.convert(flac_filename)
  Flac2mp3.convert(flac_filename, :silent => true)
  Flac2mp3.convert_metadata(flac_filename, mp3_filename)
  

== REQUIREMENTS:

* flac, the binary
* lame, the binary
* flacinfo-rb, the gem
* ruby-mp3info, the gem
* ruby, the interpreter

== INSTALL:

* gem install flac2mp3

== THANKS:

  * Rich Lafferty, for turning me on to the wonderful idea of keeping everything in FLAC format
  * Apple, for having a bunch of little-i, capital-letter products that don't like FLAC format
  * Robin Bowes, for flac2mp3.pl, which annoyed me enough to get me to write this