Mark Knecht writes:
> 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.
This might work:
- emerge -u media-sound/transkode && transkode
- Configure transkode:
- edit the profile (like mp3-standard) you want to use to your needs
- set the naming scheme to %{src_dir}/%{src_name}.%{dst_ext}
- Drag the root folder of your MP3s into the application window (works
with KDE, not sure about other desktops).
- Mark all files with Ctrl-A.
- Click right and set the profile to the one you want.
- Click the play button.
- Wait until all is done. You may stop and resume the process, but
when you quit transkode, I think it does not remember which files
were already converted.
- Beware of the strange naming things, I do not know how well transkode
will handle this.
- You will also get a nice amarok plugin if the amarok use flag is set.
Wonko
