[LAU] Universal format convertor script?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 12:35 -0500, S. Massy wrote:
> Hello,
> There seems to be no end of script to convert everything else to OGG,
> which is nice, but not always practical. Does there exist a script to
> convert one arbitrary format to another (e.g flac to mp3, ogg to mp3,
> alac to flac, etc.)? The actual audio conversion is easy enough to
> achieve inside a for statement, but the tagging requires a little more
> legwork. Anyway, I will probably write such a script for myself sooner
> or later, but I thought I'd check here first.
> Cheers,
> S.M.
> 

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/audio-convert/

is a bash script that seems to do this for Nautilus, but why not using
it without Nautilus? I didn't take a look if you need to rewrite much.