Windows 10: How to recursively covert .flac files to .mp3 files using FFmpeg while keeping directories...

I've got ffpeg installed on my Windows 10 PC and I'd like to recursively convert .flac music into .mp3 within the same directory (by that I mean the .flac file and the .mpg file end up in the same folder) and I'll be the first to admit I'm just a beginner to both ffmpeg and the CLI, so I'm a newbie there.

I've been looking at Recursively Converting FLAC to MP3 Using FFmpeg While Maintaining Metadata and Directory Structure on Windows as a possible answer to my question, but I do not want to copy from one volume to another.

Just to avoid confusion, my highest directory is C:\Users\User\Downloads\Music\ and I'd like to convert several artist/band's tracks from .flac to .mp3 within the same directory.

C:\Users\User\Downloads\Music\1st Artist\1st CD\1st Track.flac would be converted to C:\Users\User\Downloads\Music\1st Artist\1st CD\1st Track.mp3

C:\Users\User\Downloads\Music\2nd Artist\1st CD\1st Track.flac would be converted to C:\Users\User\Downloads\Music\2nd Artist\1st CD\1st Track.mp3 and so on.

Would someone clue me in on the best way you know of to accomplish that from the CLI or a batch file, please? Windows people refer me to FFmpeg subs, FFmpeg people refer me here, I just need some help understanding what to do.

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I had already re-ripped the file from an original Warner Classics CD manufactured by Optimal Media GmbH.

So I tried your suggestion converting the .flac to .mp3 and then back to .flac. That worked! I then tried coverting .flac to .flac and that worked also.

I hope that, either way, the music content is ok, but it's hard to say. (I'm not an audiophile, haha.)

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