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 1Kxom0-0002T4-Bv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:14:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C9F0E04B1; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anli.goldspace.net (anli.goldspace.net [80.246.67.229]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5EDE04BF for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anli.goldspace.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anli.goldspace.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3785A792 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:13:57 +0300 (MSK) From: Andrew Gaydenko To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:13:57 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.1.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> <200811052146.01085.a@gaydenko.com> <5bdc1c8b0811051155y7dd7a243i546daa23b6066d16@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0811051155y7dd7a243i546daa23b6066d16@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: <200811052313.57246.a@gaydenko.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7fab9c1b-54ab-4554-b3cb-5578084dae59 X-Archives-Hash: 1a9de80a8cd4ef16bee735fe725512f5 On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:55:34 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > >> 2008/11/4 Mark Knecht : > >> > Hi, > >> > 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. > > > > GUI-based: media-sound/soundkonverter > > Thanks to all for the answers and ideas so far. > > Andrew - can soundkonverter target the output files to a completely > different directory structure? I.e., can it take input from > /audio/flac/Artist/album/*.flac and send it to > /audio/mp3/artist/album/*.mp3 where it needs to create the directories > in the output tree? > > If so this would be great for my needs. > > I'll build it later this evening. > > Thanks, > Mark There ia an option (among others) "copy directory structure" (I have not used it).