Convert .flac and .ape to mp3

[Dave]

On Thursday 04 January 2018 23:34:21 Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> What do you convert ape and flac audio files to mp3 with?
> 
> multimedia/ffmpeg does not seem to support encoding to mp3 (only
> decoding), what else could I try?

I prefer audio/sox but, like FFMPeG, you need to compile in mp3 encoding
support from port.  Sox is the audio equivalent of FFMPeG, ie very, very
powerful in it's own are of expertise which can be as simple or as complex
to use as you want it to be, eg sox file.flac file.mp3