{"id":12675,"date":"2010-07-08T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2010-07-08T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T09:43:22","slug":"flac2mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/08\/flac2mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"flac2mp3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was going through Fedora Planet<\/a> stream when I noticed this blog pos<\/a>t about converting Flac files to mp3 on Linux. \u00a0 That reminded me of a couple of folders with files that I can’t listen to in my car. \u00a0So I thought I’d convert them now, especially that I have the guide handy it only consists of a couple of steps. \u00a0I tried and it worked, except that default options used resulted in the mp3 file of 128 kbps, which is a rather low quality. \u00a0So I played a bit with it and ended up with the following shell flac2mp3.sh script:<\/p>\n

\r\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\n# Convert flac file to mp3 with best quality VBR\r\n\r\nfor file in *.flac\r\ndo\r\n    base=`basename "$file" .flac`\r\n    # Convert flat to wav\r\n    flac -d "$file"\r\n    # Convert wav to mp3 with variable bit rate, best quality\r\n    lame -V 0 "$base".wav "$base".mp3\r\ndone\r\n<\/pre>\n
As mentioned in the comments, it creates variable bit rate (VBR) mp3 files with maximum quality.<\/p>\n
Update<\/strong>: The moment I finished this blog post I felt weird.  It was almost like I did it before.  And indeed. I should have searched my own blog before posting.  Here is the post I did five years ago<\/a> which has pretty much the same script in it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I was going through Fedora Planet stream when I noticed this blog post about converting Flac files to mp3 on Linux. \u00a0 That reminded me of a couple of folders with files that I can’t listen to in my car. \u00a0So I thought I’d convert them now, especially that I have the guide handy it … Continue reading flac2mp3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,31,62],"tags":[2356,2355,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-music","category-technology","tag-flac","tag-mp3","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t