Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Gaydenko <a@gaydenko.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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