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From: "Ricardo Bevilacqua" <rus.spes@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?
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2008/11/4 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Mark,

I don't know any good FLAC to MP3 converter. But anytime I need to
convert from one format to another I simply use FFMPEG.

It's a command line program, but it is very easy to use. If you want,
you can give me the quality parameters you want to use for the
conversion and I can tell you the options you have to pass ffmpeg to
convert from FLAC to MP3.

About the directories and stuff, you could just use an script, but
unfortunatelly I can't help you with that.

Regards.

Richard.