i have a bunch of .m4a files in one folder, 1000s. can i automate their conversion somehow?

  • @zurohki@aussie.zone
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    58 months ago

    GNU Parallel works well for this kind of thing. A lot of audio stuff is single threaded, so unlike video transcoding running multiple conversions simultaneously is a useful thing to do. The command is simpler, too:

    parallel ffmpeg -i {} {.}.opus ::: *.m4a
    
    • @rollingflower
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      38 months ago

      Thanks, learning is always good, changed it