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How can I convert my music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I have a fairly large music collection, which is 9.9 GB in size. It's mainly made up of MP3 files, with some OGG Vorbis files and a handful of WAV and WMA files. I would like to convert the entire library to AAC (or a better format, if there is one) in order to reduce the size of my collection by a considerable amount.

My library is organised using this folder structure:

~/Music/{Artist}/{Album}/{Track}

Can anyone recommend a GUI tool or shellscript which would recursively convert the files, map across the metadata, and dump the files into a different folder with the same directory structure?

EDIT: I have used a script to convert everything to Opus. Problem solved, just working out the kinks now.

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I were you, I would stick to streaming in that case.

However, if you're dead set on storing files locally and there's no other option but to transcode, then use 128kbps Opus instead of AAC - assuming that iPhones support it (I haven't checked). It's a lot more efficient.

A good converter program to use is fre:ac but don't ask me for an iOS only app because I'm not an Apple guy at all.

[–] mondul@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t support it directly, I can’t add opus files to the iTunes library, so I had to use VLC for them, but it’s not designed to be a music player for the iPhone and the music stops after playing a couple of songs with the screen off

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The app I'm using on my iPhone (foobar2000) supports OGG Opus. ~However, decoding takes about a second, resulting in a noticeable gap between songs.~

EDIT: It seems that HydrogenAudio have fixed the Opus decoding in foobar2000 Mobile.