Use this tag only on questions, where the FLAC format is relevant, like encoding, decoding, editing tools or compatibility. Don't use it, if the issue can be reproduced with any audio format.
Questions tagged [flac]
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How do I split a flac with a cue?
I've got a full album flac and a cue file for it. How can I split this into a flac per track?
I'm a KDE user, so I would prefer a KDE/Qt way. I would like to see command line and other GUI answers as well, but they are not my preferred method.
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Lossless audio conversion from FLAC to ALAC using ffmpeg
Both ALAC and FLAC are lossless audio formats and files will usually have more or less the same size when converted from one format to the other.
I use ffmpeg -i track.flac track.m4a to convert between these two formats but I notice that the…
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Why can I not split a .ape file?
I would like to split a .ape album into individual tracks in .flac format using a .cue sheet. For this I followed a tutorial I found. In short I pass this command to the terminal:
cuebreakpoints example.cue | shnsplit -o flac example.ape
But I get…
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convert WAV music library to FLAC on command line and achieve best quality
I would like to produce (nearly) perfect FLAC files by verifying/checking all conversion steps. I'm hoping to do this in a single command, although a short bash script would be acceptable as a second choice.
I am on Kubuntu 12.04 and I installed…
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How do I convert FLAC files to AAC (preferrably VBR 320k+)?
I back my CDs up to FLAC and then transcode to AAC (.m4a) files for portability on my android phone and the wife's iPhone. I had been using XLD on Mac and it does a great job but I'd rather not steal her Mac to do this and be able to do it on my own…
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Copy all tags from one FLAC file to another?
Is there a way to copy all tags from one FLAC file to another seamlessly using a command-line tool?
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Space-efficient Linux filesystem for music disk?
I have an older SSD in my laptop full of static data, mostly FLAC and a few zip files, there's very few files less than 10MB and likewise writes are weekly rather than multiple per second. I'm reluctant to buy a new, legacy disk to get more space…
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Convert FLAC files to OGG Vorbis
Are there any Linux tools for transcoding and syncing music directories?
I encode my music to FLAC, which I keep on an external hard drive. Some time ago I transcoded this collection to OGG Vorbis, in a different directory. Since then I have added…
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Mass .flac --> .mp3 transcoding: How to write a shell script that preserves ID3 tag information?
In recent weeks I've gone from a fairly 'hands-on' approach to .flac --> .mp3 transcoding, to one that's far more 'set & forget'.
The first step was to stop using a GUI front end (Audacity with a LAME plug-in) and instead use the method I outlined…
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How to display technical codec info for a FLAC file?
Given a .flac file, how is it possible to query and display the technical info relating to the codec? I looked into man flac with no luck (the --analyze output is not humanly parseable). I'm specifically interested in the bit rate (say, 16 bits per…
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How to convert WavPack to FLAC?
I need to convert a bunch of .wv files to .flac but I can't seem to find a program to do it. Does anybody know how I can do this?
P.S.: I was wondering why Audacity does not support the importing .wv format if it is open source and lossless. Does…
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How to encode huge FLAC files into MP3 and other files like AAC?
My problem is very long recordings, longer than supported by WAV. I'm talking about continuous recordings of around eight hours in length.
Now, I do most of my recording using sox into FLAC, which makes the most sense, since those are live…
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How to convert all .wav files in subdirectories to .flac?
I have some songs in wav format. I would like to convert them to flac (which is also lossless, but has compression).
The solution needs to recurse through subdirectories to find .wav or .WAV files (ideally case insensitive), convert them to .flac…
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convert wav to flac with tags
long story short: I need a script to convert wav files to flac, while taking the file name (minus extension) to place in the song title tag of the flac file.
I have about 1200 audio CDs that I decided to archive lossless on a terabyte drive. …
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FLAC correctness using MD5 placed in STREAMINFO
I know from [Sources], that FLAC computes CRC and MD5.
What I am afraid that flac --test only does CRC test - as stated in man flac : same as -d except no decoded file is written .
How to check flac file correctness, using MD5 of raw PCM placed in…
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