aubuti;588038 Wrote: > Odd. I don't know bliss, but I wonder if that disk usage is only a > temporary thing while it's creating new copies of the files with > embedded art. Did you try doing it on a small subset of files, letting > bliss run to completion (including cleaning up any tmp files) and then > comparing the filesizes before and after? Even if that were the > explanation, that would be awfully inefficient disk usage while > processing the files.That's perceptive. bliss does create temporary files > which are written to and then renamed. This is to avoid any corruption to your music if, say, you stopped bliss as it was halfway through working on one file. However, it only does this a file at a time (create temp file, write to it, rename it back to the original file), so you shouldn't see any huge increase caused by this.
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