[Flac] Batch, recursive Flac to Ogg converter for Windows

[jason at buberel.org]

For those of you who, like me, want to keep a Flac-based archive of their CD 
collection, but maintain an Ogg-encoded version of that library for use on 
portable players, here is something you might be interested in: 

I've put together a Cygwin/perl-based solution that works under Windows XP 
that can take an entire tree of Flac-encoded files: 

C:\music\flac\artist1\album1\track1.flac
C:\music\flac\artist1\album1\track2.flac
C:\music\flac\artist1\album2\track1.flac
C:\music\flac\artist2\album1\track1.flac
C:\music\flac\artist2\album1\track2.flac 

And convert it into: 

C:\music\ogg\artist1\album1\track1.ogg
C:\music\ogg\artist1\album1\track2.ogg
C:\music\ogg\artist1\album2\track1.ogg
C:\music\ogg\artist2\album1\track1.ogg
C:\music\ogg\artist2\album1\track2.ogg 

It requires Cygwin + the cygwin perl package + Vorbis Tools for Windows. It 
is smart enough to not re-convert already converted tracks, so it can be run 
incrementally to only encode new Flac files. So far, it seems to handle 
strange file names reasonably well. It allows you to specify the Ogg 
encoding quality level (defaults to '6'), and even has a '--force' option to 
force the script to overwrite existing Ogg files. 

All you do is specify the source and destination directories: 

> flac2ogg.pl --source=/cygdrive/c/music/flac --dest=/cygdrive/c/music/ogg

And that's it. 

Instructions and download at: 

http://www.buberel.org/linux/batch-flac-to-ogg-converter.php 

Enjoy-
jason