So, if I have a 50,000 flac files with perfect metadata encoded with
<=1.1.2, I should...
find . -type f -name "*.flac" -exec flac -8 {} \; -print
And come back to my computer in about 24-48 hours?
I've tested it on a small dir tree and it seemed to be fine. I just wanted
to make sure though, before having to re-tag a couple terabytes of data.
This is actually a serious post, if someone knows a better/safer way to do
this automagically, I'm all ears.
Thank you for your time,
Frank Russo
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At 05:52 PM 12/5/2006, Frank Russo wrote:>So, if I have a 50,000 flac files with perfect metadata encoded with ><=1.1.2, I should... > >find . -type f -name "*.flac" -exec flac -8 {} \; -print > >And come back to my computer in about 24-48 hours? > >I've tested it on a small dir tree and it seemed to be fine. I just >wanted to make sure though, before having to re-tag a couple >terabytes of data. >This is actually a serious post, if someone knows a better/safer way >to do this automagically, I'm all ears. > >Thank you for your time, >Frank RussoIf you have access to your files under Windows, I have a BAT file that will work to do what you want. You just drag the top level of the directory tree to it and it will recompress. It's not very elegant, but it works. Jon -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.9/571 - Release Date: 12/5/2006 11:50 AM
--- Frank Russo <russofris@hotmail.com> wrote:> So, if I have a 50,000 flac files with perfect metadata encoded with > <=1.1.2, I should... > > find . -type f -name "*.flac" -exec flac -8 {} \; -print > > And come back to my computer in about 24-48 hours? > > I've tested it on a small dir tree and it seemed to be fine. I just > wanted > to make sure though, before having to re-tag a couple terabytes of > data. > This is actually a serious post, if someone knows a better/safer way > to do this automagically, I'm all ears.I would add -V and log all output to a file. also, someone has reported that if the input FLAC file has errors and you use --force, the transcoded file will only have data up to the error, and I still have to look into this. so safer still would be ... -exec sh -c 'flac -t {} && flac -8V {}' \; ... Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com