Setting nice level of transcode

[Rovanion]

I'm running a server with multiple services on it, one of them being Subsonic. And I don't want the transcoding process of Subsonic to take priority over any other process running.

So I added nice -n 19 before every transcode command like this:
nice -n 19 ffmpeg -i %s -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -

But after this subsonic doesn't transcode anything at all. So how do I do it?

[Zmegolaz]

It works for me, but as with all transcoding you have to add the program or a link to it to the transcode folder. You may have to change the paths depending on your installation, but this was what I did:

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ln -s /usr/bin/nice /var/subsonic/transcode/