For reasons known only to the program, Audacious didn’t feel like opening FLAC files this morning. I suppose it might have been the Icelandic file names, or some setting I forgot to change because I never use Audacious, but…whatever. I don’t care because CLI can batch process, which is faster. When I forget…I need lame and flac installed, and this command will not overwrite the original FLAC files. Default bitrate is 128, and I left it there, but it can be changed with flags.

for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd “$file” | lame -h – “${file%.flac}.mp3”); done