On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 03:39:44PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of .flac files to .mp3 files, but the sox > and flac command tools thats in the base repo won't do that. EPEL > doesn't seem to have much either. I went looking at ATRPMS but am > getting database errors from their home page :( I know rpmforge > used to have this stuff, but its virtually unmaintained today so > I've written it off. > > any suggestions? I don't really want to have to build this stuff > from source. The nux repo has most of the multimedia stuff and is more or less the go to repo these days. I would just use it to install ffmpeg which should include the needed codecs. ffmpeg -i myfile.flac myfile.mp3 will probably do it. (Untested--actually I built ffmpeg from source, because I wanted a later version, but that had more to do with some video stuff.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6