I’ve written a script to convert .flac files to .mp3 and retain a useful directory structure. This is mad-handy for my w800i phone.

source_path="${1%/}/"; dest_base="${2%/}/"; bit_rate=$3 if [ ! -r "$source_path" ]; then echo "Source path not found." exit 2 fi if [ ! -r "$dest_base" ]; then echo "Destination base path not found" exit 2 fi if [ ! $bit_rate ]; then echo "No bit rate specified, defaulting to 128kbps" bit_rate=128 fi artist_album=`echo "$source_path" | sed 's:^.*/\([^/]*/[^/]*/[^/]*\)$:\1:'` dest_path="$dest_base$artist_album" # Check out source dir if [ ! "$(ls -A "$source_path"*.flac )" ]; then echo "No .flac files found in source path." exit 2; fi cd "$source_path" ls | grep .flac | while read file ;do # Each flac title=`metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT "$file" | grep "TITLE=" | sed "s/comment\[0\]: TITLE=//g" | sed "s/^ *//g"` artist=`metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT "$file" | grep "ARTIST=" | sed "s/comment\[1\]: ARTIST=//g" | sed "s/^ *//g"` tracknumber=`metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT "$file" | grep "TRACKNUMBER=" | sed "s/comment\[2\]: TRACKNUMBER=//g" | sed "s/^ *//g"` tracktotal=`metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT "$file" | grep "TRACKTOTAL=" | sed "s/comment\[3\]: TRACKTOTAL=//g" | sed "s/^ *//g"` album=`metaflac --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT "$file" | grep "ALBUM=" | sed "s/comment\[4\]: ALBUM=//g" | sed "s/^ *//g"` echo "Converting: $artist - $album [$title]" flac --silent -d "$file" wavfile=${file%.flac}.wav newfile=${file%.flac}.mp3 lame --quiet --tt "$title" --ta "$artist" --tl "$album" --tn $tracknumber --preset "$bit_rate"kbps "$wavfile" "$newfile" done rm *.wav mkdir -p "$dest_path" mv *.mp3 "$dest_path" exit 0;

By no means perfect, but it does work. You will need flac and lame installed for this to work. Comments/suggestions welcome!