Is it bad to keep working on my computer while it is encoding music?

Is it bad to keep working on my computer while it is encoding music? I have a large amount of music that I need to convert from FLAC to mp3. It will take over a day in total. I'd like to continue working on my laptop while this is in progress. Can this cause any problems (skips in the songs, etc.)? I don't mind my laptop being slower while it's working, I just don't want to mess up the music.
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Guest [Entry]

Digitalizing requires how fast the audio can run in the CPU cycles. You won't get any skipping, its simply going through one second at a time and its not going to skip a second. If you keep working on the computer, you'll eat up your CPU causing the program to run a lot slower than usual.

Guest [Entry]

It will not hurt converted files. Conversion will be a bit slower (some percent time more), but that is just a small price ;)