FLAC is a free, open source lossless compression audio codec. The Convert to FLAC script, converts audio files compressed with alternative lossless codecs (Monkey's Audio, Shorten, etc.) to the FLAC format. FLAC is my preferred audio format for archiving music, so I wanted an easy way to convert other formats to FLAC. In addition to simply transcoding the file to the FLAC format, Convert to FLAC also preserves any existing tags from the original file.
Convert to FLAC is a BASH shell script, and was originally written for use under Linux. It should, however, run under any OS that supports BASH.
Convert to FLAC currently supports the following input formats:
Convert to FLAC is a BASH shell script, and was originally written for use under Linux. It should, however, run under any OS that supports BASH.
Convert to FLAC currently supports the following input formats:
- FLAC (transcoding to a different compression ratio)
- Monkey's Audio (APE) - requires MAC and apeinfo binaries
- Shorten - requires shorten binary
- WAV
- WavPack - requires wvunpack binary