Rhythmbox can be made to recognise portable music players, and if you use it to copy songs on then it will automatically transcode them from flac to mp3. To do this you need to install mp3 support in Ubuntu. Then create an empty file called .is_audio_player in the top level directory of the Android file system. If Rhythmbox is open you'll need to restart it to get it to find the device. The default is 128kbps, for instructions on how to change this see this post on Android Edge. If Rhythmbox doesn't know where to put the files then add a line to tell it. The Rhythmbox FAQ has an example. For my HTC X One I had to set it to:
audio_folders=Music/
Copying files onto my phone took around 10 mins for an album, which seemed a bit slow. I suspect transcoding was the limiting factor, and it'd probably be faster on a higher powered machine.
[This post was edited on 15/06/2012 to add info regarding HTC X One]
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