[TriLUG] script to convert/sync FLAC to MP3

[Ron Kelley]

Slightly OT, but...

Once you have identified your converter utility, have a look at the gnu "parallel" utility.  Many of the utilities we use everyday operate on a single file at a time and won't use multi-core CPUs to their fullest potential.  Using the parallel utility, you can run multiple processes at the same time in batches of <num-of-cpu-cores>.  If you have a quad-core CPU, you can easily run 4 jobs at the same time - potentially cutting down the processing time dramatically.  I personally use this tool to quickly compress lots of web server log files.  Very cool utility.


http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/


Thanks,

-Ron
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com




On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Chris Merrill wrote:

> Coming back to answer my own question...just one more page of searches
> revealed a candidate:
> 
> http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/solution-converting-flac-to-mp3-advanced-supports-drag-n-drop
> 
> I'm running it now :>  At the rate it's going, it'll be a day or so until
> it's done and I can evaluate the results.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/13/2011 10:37 PM, Chris Merrill wrote:
>> Some time ago I came across a script that would take a folder full of
>> various audio format files and create a "mirror" of those files, but all
>> converted to a specific format - in my case, MP3.  It would traverse
>> hierarchies of folders and convert those that we not already present in
>> the target folder.
>> 
>> I no doubt came across this script either via Google or here, but my
>> searches so far have not yet located it this time around. Anyone here
>> have such a script?
>> 
>> Chris
>> <hoping to not sit down to write/debug my own...>
>> 
>> 
> 
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