On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2008/11/4 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> > 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
