I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3: flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3
and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files into a single mp3 file with something like the following: ( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3 but in practice only the first flac command is executed (see below) I imagine it would be possible to convert to multiple mp3 files and join those, but I'm curious as to why it fails as a shell script. -------------------------------------------------------------------- $ ( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3 flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. file1.flac: done flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. LAME 3.98.4 32bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/) CPU features: MMX (ASM used), 3DNow! (ASM used), SSE, SSE2 Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz Encoding <stdin> to both.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 128 kbps qval=2 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"