hey @vaporeon_ is there a good way to parallelize the following bash script I'm using to convert FLACs to MP3s?

#!/usr/bin/env bash

find "./${1}" | while read -r file; do
  case $(file -b "${file}") in
  'FLAC '*)
    echo "${file}"
    ffmpeg -nostdin -i "${file}" -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${file%flac}mp3" -v 16
    ;;
  *)
    ;;
  esac
done

@wallhackio Does FFmpeg not already use all available CPU cores for converting a file in parallel? I thought FFmpeg did that, at least for videos.
(If not, I can type up something, but first want to confirm that it isn't already being parallel inside FFMPEG)

@vaporeon_ a little searching tells me that audio encoding is typically handled with a single thread

@wallhackio Hm, assuming the audio files are mostly of similar length, does something like this work? I didn't test it, but you get the idea, right?

  case $(file -b "${file}") in
  'FLAC '*)
    echo "${file}"
    ffmpeg -nostdin -i "${file}" -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${file%flac}mp3" -v 16 &
    i=$(($i+1))
    if [ $i -eq `nproc` ] ; then
        wait # Wait for all `nproc` jobs to finish
        i=0
    fi
    ;;

@wallhackio Initialize i to 0 before starting that entire pipeline, of course

@vaporeon_ for some reason this will quit before finishing all of the files...