Hello all, I've been working on a program for a week or two now that will convert all the wav files in a folder to mp3s, filling the id3 tags with the correct information as collected from gracenote.com. This part works fine. However, the actual conversion to mp3 takes between 30 and 50 seconds per song, so it's usually about 10 minutes per album. With this in mind, I thought, why not try to use threads so all the conversions happen simultaneously? That way, the whole album will take between 30 and 50 seconds. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get a working threaded version that significantly reduces the time involved . . . The unthreaded version is available at http://rafb.net/paste/results/Y1DTnW54.html, and the current, only slightly time-improved threaded version is available at http://rafb.net/paste/results/Lvsjj495.html. Any and all suggestions as to how to threadify this are welcome. I realize the code isn't as pretty as it could be, but first I want to make a threaded version that works. Once this has been accomplished, I'll finish commenting the code and making it more user-friendly to read.
Thanks in advance, Orri P.S. - In order to make my code work, it is necessary to download several modules. Once the code works, I'll include above the code a comment listing all the requirements. Right now, I believe the following modules are needed: ClientForm - http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/ id3writer - http://www.comfortableshoe.co.uk/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Home/Python/id3Writer.comments (click the "download link" link) id3reader - http://www.comfortableshoe.co.uk/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Home/Python/id3Writer.comments (click the "Ned Batchelder's id3Reader" link) PyID3 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyid3 threadpool - http://chrisarndt.de/en/software/python/threadpool.html I also considered using the following, but decided not to for reasons of difficulty of use or lack of desired operations: PyID3Tag - http://superduper.net/?page=pyid3tag ID3-Py - http://id3-py.sourceforge.net/ The following non-Python program is also needed: Lame - http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/download.html -- Email: singingxduck AT gmail DOT com AIM: singingxduck Programming Python for the fun of it. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
