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 1KxvOR-0005a4-Sq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:18:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73DF3E02D5; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.250]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F169E02D5 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so369735rvf.46 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:18:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ybc/Km4TO60KFF64ZZlTjonFv7oZL5QgDMomgK/y7tU=; b=hL7jsyICAhv3WKXUteOeBB6jWVzJRh+nqprNNHXbYN+HPNkb8PIQc76EFESwfLygqn 0P5DPtt90LE20G/65UHdSCVBZYf8Lj9GqXM+iG2CtE/Pe4D4VBqJE15WnDQSBQPd/Lap J8wM+95Gpwppmo5ghjSoE1divAfcc/o4T6Acw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=dZutedo141MAgj3Isq6IxQI9mPDL2zKHMzujzBOTiXgG2sm3g4CvdwiWqSpqFsbhAh Lk2bqwjoXjbcKXxN/fS+TzH7CA3+Z6+U50YVg64zaLgPL8g+jfbPvAZgtJcdw2XPSkOJ mUunddOdFrvoQ/OsfK0mKYJFB6YegAsgTDg6s= Received: by 10.142.125.9 with SMTP id x9mr190013wfc.38.1225941524377; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.215.15 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:18:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0811051918s6451a51es77c25a50ace2bd6c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:18:44 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0811051224x54f1346av56aabbd9127ba27c@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 References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> <558a8f1a0811051012n71ce19fck937152f04bc8df42@mail.gmail.com> <200811052146.01085.a@gaydenko.com> <58965d8a0811051224x54f1346av56aabbd9127ba27c@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e86129fe-37b0-42dc-a3c6-0f919ab40bf7 X-Archives-Hash: 67f186bd07251b194c9bef46797663a7 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, 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 > > 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