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Hi Tim,<br>
<br>
I threw something together tonight that might help:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cdtag.com/download/reflac.zip">http://cdtag.com/download/reflac.zip</a> (freeware/open source)<br>
<br>
The command line syntax is pretty simple.. it'll be something like this:<br>
reflac -r -8 -nw -nb<br>
<br>
Which is, respectively:<br>
recursive, compression level 8, no child windows, no backups<br>
<br>
Of course, set it to suit your own tastes.. I ran it on my own
collection and it did the trick.<br>
<br>
-Jud<br>
<br>
Tim wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">My FLAC files reside on my
Infrant NV (XRAID) and are also backed up</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">on my PC and on an external
USB HDD. That makes 3 copies.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I've read most everything on
the FLAC site, but as I have mentioned</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I don't know much about
structuring a command line. My PC is also</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">quite old (early P4 from
2000 w/256MB RAM) so I think it will take a LOT </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">of time for this </span></font><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">to
run through over 1200 CDs worth of FLAC files. </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">Hence my desire to </span></font><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">get
it right the first time. </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I can only assume that this
will take my PC more than</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">a day uninterrupted (that's
also with 0 crashes - very optimistic).</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I would not ask for command
syntax help if I did not need it.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I most definitely do need
help.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I read through the examples
on a previous thread (converting to 1.1.3)</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">including an example from
Josh himself,</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">but the instructions were
not entirely clear to me.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">I'm not an idiot, I just
need a hand.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="694311420-10042007">Tim</span></font></div>
<br>
<div><span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2"> > </font></span>If your files are that
important, then you should make a complete backup <span
class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div>
<div><span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">></font> </span>before you change anything.
After you have a backup, you can learn how <span
class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div>
<div><span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">></font> </span>to use the command line
without worrying about mistakes. For that matter, <span
class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div>
<div><span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">></font> </span>copy a subset of your old
files to a new directory, and try some of the commands.</div>
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face="Arial" size="2">></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder">
<span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2">> </font></span></div>
<div><span class="694311420-10042007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">></font></span>Brian</div>
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