chill wrote: > Looking for advice/experience, especially if it's relevant to Linux, > particularly pCP. > > My music library sits on a hard disk attached to a Raspberry Pi (3B+) > pCP server via USB - this drive is shared on the network via Samba. I > have another Raspberry Pi (Zero W), also running pCP, that mounts this > drive as a network share. This second RPi has a backup hard drive > attached via USB that maintains an exact copy of the main library via a > cron job that runs rsync once a day. > > What I'd like to do in addition is maintain a second, compressed (MP3), > copy of the main library in a separate folder on the backup disk. I'll > use this as a 'portable' copy that I can copy to a flash drive for use > in another pCP in my camper van. I expect another cron job, running a > transcoding script of some sort, would be the way to go, but what should > go in that script? > > My desired script will only have to deal with 'whole album' FLAC files > with associated CUE files (all other types of file will be dealt with in > a one-off initial copy/transcode task). I think I'd want to transcode > these to per-track MP3s, although if it's feasible to convert a 'whole > album' FLAC file to a 'whole album' MP3, and automatically (via a > script) adjust the CUE file to work with this MP3 file then I'd be > interested. > > So how would I go about this? Could I somehow configure rsync to create > a file list of changed files, to determine when files need to be added > to the portable copy? What software would I use on a pCP to transcode a > whole album FLAC file into single-track MP3 files, and how could I > script this?
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