On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:55:34 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM, 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 > > Thanks to all for the answers and ideas so far. > > Andrew - can soundkonverter target the output files to a completely > different directory structure? I.e., can it take input from > /audio/flac/Artist/album/*.flac and send it to > /audio/mp3/artist/album/*.mp3 where it needs to create the directories > in the output tree? > > If so this would be great for my needs. > > I'll build it later this evening. > > Thanks, > Mark
There ia an option (among others) "copy directory structure" (I have not used it).