Audacity does an excellent job ( and lets you select many different encoding
qualities )

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@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
>
>


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Beau Dylan Henderson