I installed cygwin and it's cool. I think it will prove invaluable to me in the future, but for this Flac to MP3 mass conversion project, it's a kludge.

My options as I see it:

• Write a windows program to do it. I could probably whip something up in VB relatively quick.
• Linux box. This is pretty easily done since I use Linux at work daily on our webservers.
• OS X. I quite sure bash (or some similar shell) exists under all the bling bling.

I think the VB route is the most likely. I have pieces done already that I programed in the past from other projects. I will make my stuff freely available when I'm done. I almost never finish a coding project, so we'll see how it goes.