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 1KxrfZ-0006HS-B6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:20:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B2BDE0241; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070E4E0241 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m36so328781rnd.14 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.204.12 with SMTP id b12mr155701ybg.72.1225927210316; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.98.4 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <955d685d0811051520p3e0c165aqf39a4c9da20d2a9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:20:10 +1000 From: "Beau Henderson" 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16351_778244.1225927210321" References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> <558a8f1a0811051012n71ce19fck937152f04bc8df42@mail.gmail.com> <200811052146.01085.a@gaydenko.com> <58965d8a0811051224x54f1346av56aabbd9127ba27c@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 42a87475-8134-47a4-bf14-b0efb48da601 X-Archives-Hash: 1502f3ce563b6a91581eb3dfc260265b ------=_Part_16351_778244.1225927210321 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Audacity does an excellent job ( and lets you select many different encoding qualities ) On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:24 AM, 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 > > -- Beau Dylan Henderson ------=_Part_16351_778244.1225927210321 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> 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
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