On Sunday 27 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My > son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can > anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or > less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically > band/album/audio_files.
I do this the easy way, with an amarok plugin - transkode, it's in portage Configure it to transcode on demand when transferring to the media player, then drag mp3s as normal. Transkode will re-encode them on the fly. Pros: quick, easy, no hassle Cons: slower than simply moving an mp3, has to be done each time you transfer a track to the player, encoding is not of the best quality (but players don't render the best quality sound either so this doesn't bother me at all) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
