For Fun: Longest conversion "session"
Reply #10 – 2005-04-18 12:12:54
Last night, I started converting my entire music library from FLAC to MP3 (for playback on a portable player). My library consists of approximately 3,100 songs and I'm using foobar to convert (with LAME 3.96.1 VBR with a -2 setting). Obviously, this has to fall under a "for fun" topic ... everyone uses different hardware and system configurations. But I'm curious how long it's taken others to convert a similar amount of music (or more! I have an Intel P4 2.8 GHz, 512 MB memory and am using two different drives (source -> destination). At the moment, this is looking like it will run for about 36-48 hours total for the entire collection (with minimal user load on the system). Can anyone beat that? You may sense an underlying question here ... is this about normal for that much music and a conversion between those two formats? Thanks! [a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=291460"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] I just did a similar conversion recently. I needed to encode my entire library onto my new iPod. I had a mixture of .wav files , wavpack and Psytel (mpeg2) - encoded AAC's, and I wanted them all converted to M4A files for the iPod It took around 1.5 days (on a P4 1. to convert the .wv files into .M4A files using wvunpack and Nero Encoder. I had to write some interesting scripts to automate the processes. The following script is an example of the sort of stuff I was doing - this one traverses a directory tree and converts wv files to m4a files. Note: only run this on a backup copy of your .wv files as it deletes the originals:@echo off rem converts all .wv in a given directory tree to .m4a files rem usage: b_wv2m4a.bat <directory> rem requires wvunpack, NAACEnc, and a legal copy of NERO ! for /R %1 %%I in (*.wv) DO call :wv2m4a "%%I" goto :end :wv2m4a rem -------------------------------------- rem Convert wv to wav wvunpack -d -y %1 %temp%\unpacked.wav rem -------------------------------------- rem -------------------------------------- rem Create a variable to contain final rem filename set AACFILE=%1 rem -------------------------------------- rem -------------------------------------- rem Invoke AAC encoder and use rem string substitution to generate rem name of Output file. NAACEnc -normal %temp%\unpacked.wav %AACFILE:.wv=.m4a% rem -------------------------------------- :end I also wrote scripts to tag entire directory trees using tg.exe etc, and scripts to invoke mp4creator on a set of Psytel-AACs to convert to M4A. I had a lot of fun and the whole procedure took about a week, including some tweaking.