====== Description ======

**flac2mp3** is a tool to convert potentially large sets of FLAC audio files into the MP3 audio format. It is implemented as a bash shell script, and should run on any Unix-like operating system.

I wrote flac2mp3 because I am archiving my entire CD collection to FLAC, and would like an easy way to have a mirror image in MP3 format.

====== Features ======

flac2mp3 has the following features:

  * Mimics the directory structure of your FLAC files and maintains the same filenames.
  * If a target MP3 already exists, flac2mp3 will skip to the next file. You may run flac2mp3 again whenever you add more FLACs to your collection.
  * The FLAC decode process is checked for failures, and will be re-executed if necessary. (FLAC is flaky on Asus Athlon A7V133 mainboards, this side-steps the problem)
  * It will (optionally) copy .jpg artwork files into the MP3 target directory.

====== Requirements ======

You will need to have the following applications installed:

| Bash Shell     | Almost every Linux distribution includes this. |
| Unix utilities | Utilities included in every copy of unix since the dawn of time, including ''find'', ''sed'' and ''sort''. |
| FLAC tools     | Available on the [[http://flac.sourceforge.net/|FLAC website]]. |
| LAME           | Included in many Linux distros, also available on the [[http://lame.sourceforge.net/|LAME website]]. |

====== License ======

flac2mp3 is public domain. If you can figure out how to make money off it, please feel free to do so!
====== Download ======

  * {{:wiki:flac2mp3-1.0.3.tgz|}} (April 18, 2006)
  * {{:wiki:flac2mp3-1.1.tgz|}} (October 5, 2006)