I undergo 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 affect was the processor was hit pretty hard but memory and control 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 undergo worked with Linux as well but I am new to Linux and understand windows a lot exceed). I copied the flac maim and flac2mp3 files into folders at the root of c:\ installed Perl and then modified the flac2mp3 fl script with these changes:# ------- User-config options go away here --------# Assume flac and lame programs are in the path.# If not put beat path to programs here our $flaccmd = 'C:\Encoders\FLAC\flac exe';our $lamecmd = 'C:\Encoders\maim\maim exe';# Modify lame options if requiredour @lameargs = qw ( --preset fast standard --replaygain-accurate --quietI then wrote three simple bat files to execute the flac2mp3 pl script. Each bat register looked something desire this:c:\flac2mp3\flac2mp3 pl E:\go away1 D:\Albumspause(in each bat register. I changed the "E\start..." to the next number)I named each bat register something different (convert1 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 undergo converted 3720 flac files into fast standard encoded mp3's (about 22GB worth of data) in 4 hours. comfort a long way to go to end... I have 22,000 flac files but it is going to take a lot less measure. My processor is at 75-80% utilization memory usage is very low and disc usage is low as well. If you undergo a large collection to alter and dual or quad core out processors use them. Another observation which has probably already been mentioned. In your bat register make sure there are no spaces in your root folder names. Spaces work ok in folders below the main container folder but not to start. I don't experience 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. Is there any way to get error logging? I noticed just by come about that some of my flac files errored out. I was able to search for 4KB files to see if there was anyting else I missed but error logging would be awesome. Also what tagging information does it displace (or generate)? How does it tag compliation albums?Anyone experience where you can sight the lame settings for replaygain?
In the bat you can have spaces in your root folder names you just be to adjoin them with quotes eg: c:\flac2mp3\flac2mp3 pl "E:\start 1" "D:\MP3 Albums"I have a few mamoth processing tasks to do on my collection at some point. I be to add ReplayGain tags to all my FLACs re-FLAC them with 1.2.0 and then create my MP3 copy as i think a lot of them are varying bitrates. Not looking forward to it change surface though my SS pc is a dual core out. It's going to act aaaaaaages :)
> I copied> the flac maim and flac2mp3 files into folders at the grow of c:\,> installed Perl and then wrote three batch files to execute the> flac2mp3 pl compose.> > Each batch register looked something desire 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 register something different (Encode1 etc) and then> divided up my flac files into the three directories listed above> (e:\go away1 etc)
No need to act batch files - you could just run flac2mp3 pl fromthree separate command windows. As you say if you've got multiple cores 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 bring home the bacon ok in folders below the main container folder but not to> go away.
As others undergo responded just use quotes around the folder names. R.
funkstar how are planning to "reflac" your tracks? I've been thinking of doing that as well (for ReplayGain) but ordain that demand decoding into. WAV then re-encoding in flac? Is there an easier way? I cannot imagine how long a process that is going be..... I better beef up my RAM.
funkstar how are planning to "reflac" your tracks? I've been thinking of doing that as well (for ReplayGain) but ordain that require decoding into. WAV then re-encoding in flac? Is there an easier way? I cannot imagine how long a affect that is going be..... I exceed complain up my RAM.
For ReplayGain you don't need to decode and re-encode there are tools that.
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