Transcoding FLAC music to MP3:
ffmpeg is a highly useful application for converting music and videos. However, audio transcoding is limited to a a single core. If you have a large FLAC archive and you wanted to compress it into the efficient Opus codec, it would take forever with the fastest processor to complete, unless you were to take advantage of all cores in your CPU.
parallel --jobs <number of CPU cores to use> 'ffmpeg -v 0 -i "{}" -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "{.}.mp3"' ::: $(find -type f -name '*.flac')
Transcoding Videos to VP9: