![]() It uses GStreamer, and it can be used to convert any GStreamer-supported format to any other format - thus FLAC to Ogg Vorbis or FLAC to MP3 is no special task. If you are looking for a GUI app, SoundConverter is a general-purpose batch conversion tool that can get the job done in a hurry. There are several tools to automate the process for you, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The only trick is that first time-consuming step of bulk transcoding the big audio directory. As long as you are expending your processor cycles to perform the work, you’d might as well store the results locally. It’s essentially a CPU-versus-disk trade-off. But the hidden cost of this approach is that you re-transcode each file every time it is accessed - including if you remove it and later replace it, and including a full complete transcode for every individual device you synchronize. There is, without doubt, something “l33t” about using FUSE to transcode your files on the fly, so for those of us who secretly think Linux has gotten too user-friendly in recent days, it is an attractive approach. Syncing a big collection could take a while, unless you have a really fast processor and/or lots of cores. Another disadvantage is that the transcoding happens as the files are being copied, which slows down the copy process. ![]() One big disadvantage is that they are relatively immature code with lots of files, they may create error-ridden files, or in the worst-case scenario, simply hang. They have the advantage that they don’t require any extra disk space: the FUSE module transcodes the FLAC files to the lossy format during the file-access operation. These systems create a virtual directory that appears to be filled with lossy versions of your lossless originals, but which in reality are only generated when accessed by an application - including a music player or file manager you use to copy them onto a portable device. One approach is to use an auto-transcoding filesystem plugin for FUSE, such as MP3FS or Fuse-music. None of the Linux CD rip-and-encoding applications currently support simultaneously encoding two versions of each track, but there are a couple of other strategies that will get to the same place - and potentially faster, since they may not require your presence at the keyboard. Luckily this is a weekend project where you can spend a few minutes setting up, and rest of your weekend letting the computer do the work while you relax.īasically, if you want a lossless and a lossy copy of each track, you will need to encode each track twice. So if your inner audiophile persuades you to rip your music collection to a lossless format like FLAC, you can enjoy a pristine sound at home, but it’s simply too much information for flash-based storage - you have to come up with another solution for taking your tunes on the road. Disk space is cheap, but it still isn’t free.
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