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Most efficient way to convert a large ALAC library to MP3

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I have a large library of CDs ripped to alac which I use as my main music library. I'd like to convert a copy of this library to vbr mp3 for portable devices, however I don't want to have to do this on my laptop, as there is approximately 650Gb of music and I travel to much to leave my laptop sitti…

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#!/bin/sh
for file in "$@" ; do
name=`echo "$file" | sed -e "s/.mp4$//g"`
ffmpeg -i "$file" -ac 2 -f wav - | lame --preset standard - "$name.mp3"
done

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In the examples below, is assumed as the source directory. Create a script: If you want a different location to be used for the outputs, add this before : Convert using from moreutils: Not to be confused with GNU , which uses a different syntax:

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