From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kxogj-0002CO-1K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:09:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 476C4E0583; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2078AE0583 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kxogf-00029z-AJ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:09:09 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:09:03 +0100 id 000102F4.4911FD5F.000036F0 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:08:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811052109.02024.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 98306902-0335-43a7-aa54-991411457b7c X-Archives-Hash: f7dfa96a1f2b971e7f605c32b72c099d Mark Knecht writes: > I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy > of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories > using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 20000 > files so I need the converted structure to replicate the original. > Most likely the tool has to be very tolerant of file naming, unicode, > etc., as there are likely to be any number of strange things in there. > > Possibly something in perl or, for the likes of me, even something GUI > based. This might work: - emerge -u media-sound/transkode && transkode - Configure transkode: - edit the profile (like mp3-standard) you want to use to your needs - set the naming scheme to %{src_dir}/%{src_name}.%{dst_ext} - Drag the root folder of your MP3s into the application window (works with KDE, not sure about other desktops). - Mark all files with Ctrl-A. - Click right and set the profile to the one you want. - Click the play button. - Wait until all is done. You may stop and resume the process, but when you quit transkode, I think it does not remember which files were already converted. - Beware of the strange naming things, I do not know how well transkode will handle this. - You will also get a nice amarok plugin if the amarok use flag is set. Wonko