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

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

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, 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
>
> Try also media-sound/soundconverter for a gnome version
>
>

I tried this. It converts a single album correctly but fails horribly
at collections of dozens and dozens of directories. It seems to get
very confused.

I guess I'll try the KDE version to see if it works any better.

Thanks for the help,
Mark