{"id":8614,"date":"2005-02-11T00:49:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/11\/converting-flac-to-mp3-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T06:08:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T03:08:47","slug":"converting-flac-to-mp3-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/11\/converting-flac-to-mp3-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting FLAC to MP3 on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Codec<\/a>. A 35 megabyte WAV file converted to FLAC will occupy about 25 megabytes. This is a good decrease in size, considering the fact that no quality is lost. But some files aren’t all about quality and thus will be much better in mp3 or even ogg. Converting these is really simple. The key to the convertion is to decode flac files back to wav and than to convert them to whatever else is that you want.<\/p>\n

Here is an example script to convert a bunch of flac files in the directory to mp3s.<\/p>\n

for FILE in *.flac\r\ndo\r\n echo Converting $FILE\r\n # Decode FLAC back to WAV\r\n \/usr\/bin\/flac -d \"$FILE\"\r\n # Save the filename without extension\r\n BASE=`basename \"$FILE\" .flac`\r\n # Convert resulting WAV to MP3 with variable bitrate preserving good quality\r\n \/usr\/bin\/lame -h -V 2 \"$BASE\".wav \"$BASE\".mp3\r\ndone\r\n<\/pre>\n
\/usr\/bin\/flac<\/code> utility is a part of Fedora Linux distribution. \/usr\/bin\/lame<\/code> is a part of LAME project<\/a>.  RPMs for Fedora Linux are available from a number of repositories, such as FreshRPMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Codec. A 35 megabyte WAV file converted to FLAC will occupy about 25 megabytes. This is a good decrease in size, considering the fact that no quality is lost. But some files aren’t all about quality and thus will be much better in mp3 or even ogg. Converting these is … Continue reading Converting FLAC to MP3 on Linux<\/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_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12675,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/08\/flac2mp3\/","url_meta":{"origin":8614,"position":0},"title":"flac2mp3","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8890,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/25\/quote-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":8614,"position":1},"title":"Quote of the day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft .WAV RIFF files. 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