[gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

[Mark Knecht]

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.

Thanks,
Mark