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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3
encoder with suboptimal default settings. I would write a script
myself. For flac decoding use (of course) media-libs/flac; for mp3
encoding, media-sound/lame. You can probably chain them in a pipe,
using flac -dc infile.flac | mp3lame <lameopts> - outfile.mp3 . Read
lame's man page and write a shell (or perhaps python/perl) script.