I have been playing with flac2mp3, and what a great script. I am really thankful for this, as I am re-encoding my entire music collection (650GB of flac, about 1700 albums), and it would take me forever the way I used to do it (Easy CD-DA) I started off trying to run it on my workstation, which is pretty beefy, but after a while, you need your pc. It took almost 12 hours to convert 3758 songs (about 23GB worth of fast standard encoded mp3's). What I noticed during this process was the processor was hit pretty hard, but memory and drive activity was pretty light. I had a Dell server with Ubuntu Server on it that I use as test machine. It has a quadcore xeon processor with RAID5 and 2GB RAM. I rebuilt it really quickly with Windows (I know this would have worked with Linux as well, but I am new to Linux and understand windows a lot better). I copied the flac, lame, and flac2mp3 files into folders at the root of c:\, installed Perl, and then wrote three batch files to execute the flac2mp3.pl script.
Each batch file looked something like this: c:\flac2mp3\flac2mp3.pl E:\start1 D:\Albums c:\flac2mp3\flac2mp3.pl E:\start2 D:\Albums c:\flac2mp3\flac2mp3.pl E:\start3 D:\Albums I named each batch file something different (Encode1, etc), and then divided up my flac files into the three directories listed above (e:\start1, etc) I then launched all three .bat files and I have converted 3720 flac files into fast standard encoded mp3's (about 22GB worth of data) in 4 hours. Still a long way to go to finish...I have 22,000 flac files, but it is going to take a lot less time. My processor is at 75-80% utilization, memory usage is very low, and disc usage is low as well. If you have a large collection to convert, and dual or quad core processors, use them. Another observation, which has probably already been mentioned. In your .bat file, make sure there are no spaces in your folder names. Spaces work ok in folders below the main container folder, but not to start. I don't know if all of this has been mentioned, but I figured I would put it out there. Thanks again for a great script. What a time saver -- broth420 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ broth420's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1676 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38413 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
