Is there a program that will easily rip flac?

[Xamindar]

I have a few albums that are riped to flac format and was wondering if there was a program that will rip those to mp3 and keep the id3 tags and file names the same (with the exception of .mp3 of course).

[nlindblad]

I have a few albums that are riped to flac format and was wondering if there was a program that will rip those to mp3 and keep the id3 tags and file names the same (with the exception of .mp3 of course).

Sounds like a task for Bash:

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#!/bin/bash
BITRATE="320"
OPTIONS="-h"
which lame||exit 1
which flac||exit 1
[[ -d "${1}" ]] || exit 1
for flac in $(find "${1}" -name "*.flac" -type f)
         do
         cd $(dirname "${flac}")
         flac --decode "${flac}" && lame -b ${BITRATE} ${OPTIONS} "$(basename ${flac} .flac).wav" "$(basename ${flac} .wav).mp3"
         done

Well, that's a start, but I'm not sure lame is capable of transfering metadat between formats (or if .wav even has metadata!)

[Opera]

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* media-sound/soundconverter
     Available versions:  0.8.3
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://soundconverter.berlios.de/
     Description:         A simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment.

Maybe this one ? Don't know it but I'm gonna try, I need this kind of application too.

[Erdie]

Use the audiocd tool from KDE

[xororand]

Use the audiocd tool from KDE

Would be a bit much of a hassle to burn his FLAC files and re-rip them with audiocd:/