[SOLVED] Fastest way to convert entire music library to ogg?
Hey,
I have a music library of about 100gb on my server, and since I'm starting to run out of space, I have been considering converting all the music (currently in mp3 format) to ogg vorbis to save some space, but not loose quality. I installed the mp32ogg script, which I tested on some mp3's. They became about 50% smaller and I didn't notice any difference in quality. (320kbps mp3 -> 160kbps ogg)
Anyways, the script does its job, but it's extremely slow. I'm at my parents place at the moment, testing it out on my old 35gb library, and it has been running since 3am to now (6pm), and it's not done yet (and my server is much slower than the desktop computer I'm running it on at the moment).
EDIT: OK, it just finished now. My library shrunk from 35.3gb to 28,6gb in 15,5 hours.
So I was wondering if there is a faster way to do this (as in another script/program)? Or should I just separate my library into say, ten subfolders and run an instance of the script in each of them simultaniously? I could also have my laptop run a few instances of it over samba, and my iMac too if the script runs on Mac OS X (probably does if I install some stuff from macports).
Another thing I was considering was converting it all to aac (which I believe would be even smaller?). The only script for that I found was audio-convert, but I didn't find any documentation on how to use it, and typing audio-convert --help just gave a bunch of error messages not related to the actual script at all. Obviously it didn't have a man page either, and by googling I only found a changelog etc. but no information about usage... Examples anyone?
Oh and obviously my server is CLI only, so no drag and drop converters please Also, I'm not really in a hurry with this, so it's OK if the conversion takes a few hours or even a day, but several days or weeks is completely unnacceptable.
Thanks in advance people
Last edited by pauligrinder (2011-04-21 17:09:06)
lives2evil wrote:Well, "My machines: Arch x5 + Windows 7 x2 + Mac OS X x2" => That's probably why he's broke .
I don't actually have 9 computers, I have OS X + 7 + Arch on both my Mac and my laptop, which already makes 6 then I have the server, which is an old laptop, and two nearly ten years old desktops which run Arch, so yeah. And I don't have the old ones at my apartment anyway. I'm broke because I just came back from a "world tour", visiting Japan and Australia... And also because I bought the iMac
Another reason why I can't buy a new HD for the server yet, is the fact that it's a laptop. It only has 1x IDE, and all my USB ports are already occupied by harddrives and my dtv-receiver, etc. What I will do someday soon, is turn my old desktop pc into a server. But that has to wait too, because I don't have room for it in my apartment (and it's too loud to sleep in the same room anyway). I'm actually waiting until I graduate and get a proper job, then I will upgrade the computer and make a server out of the spare parts.
I guess I'll mark this as solved now, since there doesn't seem to be a better way to do this.
Last edited by pauligrinder (2011-04-21 17:08:44)
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