[Flac] Re: Converting to 1.1.4, help please!

[Jud White]

You're right it decodes to WAV then re-encodes.. it uses flac option 
"-w" (warnings as error) and checks for error return codes.. if an error 
occurs it restores the original file and reports the problem when it 
fnishes or you ^C the program.. After re-encoding it deletes the wav, 
reads the original FLAC's metadata blocks (minus streaminfo and 
seektable) and writes them to the new FLAC file.. then it double checks 
the sample count in both flacs match (just in case), runs "flac -t" on 
the new file to ensure the header and stream are in good shape (in case 
of any probs in writing the metadata blocks), then it deletes the backup 
(if you have that option turned on).

I ran it on 50GB of FLAC (1700 files) on a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB of RAM 
and it took a long time.. not sure exactly because I interrupted it a 
lot but maybe around 10 hours.

The -r recursive means process subdirectories.. for example I have 
g:\flac, g:\flac\a, g:\flac\b, etc .. so from g:\flac I just run it with 
-r and it processors all the subdirs.

Tim wrote:
> Hey Jud, Thanks!
> I copied two of my FLAC folders (CDs) into a temp dir just to test it out
> and see if I could get it to run.
> I put the four unzipped files into the dir folder and opened a cmd window
> using the same options you suggested:
> "reflac -r -8 -nw -nb"
>
> It looks as though it first converts the files to WAV then re-encode them
> into FLAC 1.1.4 then deletes the WAV, correct?
>
> I was worried that the tags might vanish, but when I opened the files in
> both MP3Tag and Rio Manager all of the tags were there and correct.
>
> I understand the -8 -nb and -nw, but what exactly is -r "recursive"?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Now the only question is how many days it will take to re-encode over 1200
> CDs on a circa 2000 P4 (socket 723 I think) with 256MB RAM?
>
> Tim
>
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>> Hi Tim,
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>> I threw something together tonight that might help: 
>> http://cdtag.com/download/reflac.zip (freeware/open source)
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>> The command line syntax is pretty simple.. it'll be something like this:
>> reflac -r -8 -nw -nb
>>
>> Which is, respectively:
>> recursive, compression level 8, no child windows, no backups
>>
>> Of course, set it to suit your own tastes.. I ran it on my own 
>> collection and it did the trick.
>>
>> -Jud
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