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I am trying to convert my flac library on my desktop to mp3 to store on my laptop/portable players. I have about 18,000 songs which I am trying to convert.

Feeling comfortably with foobar's conversion, I thought I would just select all and convert to mp3. After 6hours of processing I was left with only about 6500 mp3 songs with a slew of errors. Thinking that maybe it just got overwhelmed, I began converting one letter at a time (As, then Bs...). These groupings range from 200-1500 songs, but still I am loosing songs, sometimes as many as 50%.

I then tried Flac squisher and out of my 18,000 original files, I was given only 7000.

I know that some of my files are 24bit and/or 5.1 so I even secluded those ones from the conversion thinking that they might be causing the lame encoder some difficulty. Did not help much.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks

 

[UNHchabo]

I'm the developer of FlacSquisher; can you tell me if you're seeing anything odd happening? Is the progress bar getting stuck, or is it alleging that all files have been completed, even though they haven't? If it doesn't successfully run one time, can you run it again and continue?

I can't reproduce this situation easily myself, since I only have about 2500 files in my own Flac library. Because of this, I appreciate any information you can provide.

As for the 24-bit and 5.1 files, I tested Lame on the command-line. A 24/96 file though (I tested using a track from Nine Inch Nails' "The Slip") went through fine; Lame took the sampling rate down to 48kHz. However, Lame will not accept a 6-channel FLAC file as input.

If you want to encode your 5.1 files in a lossy format, I have two suggestions: first, you could use Ogg Vorbis, which has multi-channel support built-in. Second, Foobar2000 would allow you to convert your files while applying the "Convert 5.1 to stereo" DSP.