A Perl client and daemon for distributed audio encoding

 The distmp3 package contains a client, distmp3, and a daemon, distmp3host,
 which can be installed on many machines to provide fast distributed encoding
 of music (typically from a CD-ripper or batch script) using an encoder of
 your choice - usually MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or flac.
 .
 abcde is one such CD ripper wrapper which has builtin support for distmp3 and
 can use it very efficiently, especially in the case where the machine with the
 best CD-ROM drive is unable to encode the extracted audio at a satisfactory
 speed.
 .
 The current tradeoff is that the client may not pass command-line arguments to
 the encoder being run on the machines running the distmp3hosts.