[Hampshire] Selective file copy

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Subject: [Hampshire] Selective file copy
Hello all,
I'm hoping to call on the group's collective bash-fu to come up with an
incantation that will make this task a lot easier.

The situation is:
- Nas drive at /media/nas/music which contains music files as
/Artist/Album/<<multiple tracks>>.

- Data drive at /media/data/MP3 which then has the same
/Artist/Album/<<multiple tracks>> layout.

The music on the NAS is a mixture of FLAC and MP3 (and probably some WMA,
but let's ignore them for the moment) depending on whether it was ripped
from a CD (FLAC) or downloaded (MP3).

What I would like to do is copy the MP3s to the /media/data/MP3 folder,
along with their corresponding folder structure.

So for example, if the NAS contains
/Artist_A/Album_1/Song[1-10].flac
as well as
/Artist_A/Album_2/Song[1-10].mp3

I want to just copy the MP3s along with the /Artist_A/Album_2 folder
structure.

This is made more complicated by the fact that the /media/data/MP3 folder
already has the Artist/Album/tracks structure in it as I have converted the
FLACs into MP3s using that as the output folder (there wasn't enough room
on the NAS to do them in-situ).

Does that sound possible?

Thanks,
Keith
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