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.

  • vhstape@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you are a Mac users (which I am assuming yes based on your preference toward AAC), the program Pine Player does an excellent job with batch conversion. Otherwise FFMPEG is probably acceptable as well.

    • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, but I’m an openSUSE user. I was considering AAC because of a recommendation from MakeUseOf or some other tech news website.

      • Skyline@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you have access to a Mac, use the Apple AAC encoder. It will give you better results than libfdk_aac, which itself is much better than the ffmpeg built-in aac encoder.