Questions tagged [flac]
FLAC (acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio compression codec without loss of information.
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What is the difference between WAV and FLAC?
My understanding is that the WAV and FLAC formats are containers for lossless audio. I have seen the FLAC format as being perhaps better because it is able to losslessly compress audio from say a WAV ...
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Convert audio file to FLAC with ffmpeg?
can I convert one of this format to compatible 16000.0 Sample Rate FLAC file?
kAudioFormatLinearPCM = 'lpcm',
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Can Apple Lossless audio be converted to FLAC with no loss of fidelity?
Can Apple Lossless audio files (ALAC) be converted to FLAC audio files with no loss of fidelity?
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Program to convert flac to mp3? [closed]
I'm looking for a program to convert flac files to mp3, while preserving the embedded metadata (including album art).
I'm pretty sure this is possible with ffmpeg, but I don't know the command . . .
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What's the simplest way to get .flac music files into iTunes?
I'm looking for a simple way to import .flac files into iTunes, so I can play them on my mac, and when I'm out, my iPhone, and I'm willing to be I'm not the first person to want to do this.
What are ...
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Why is a FLAC encoded from a decoded MP3 bigger than the MP3?
To be more precise than in the title, suppose I have a MP3 file that is 320 kbps. If I decompress it, then logically, all the data except for roughly 320 kilobits out of each second of audio should be ...
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How can I convert FLAC to other formats in OS X?
I have a few FLAC files that I'd like to play with iTunes. I would like to retain the metadata if possible.
How can I convert the files to a format supported by iTunes?
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Join many MP3, OGG, and FLAC files into one WAV or FLAC
I have 33 audio files, each about 11 seconds long, and I'd like to merge them into one lossless file. How can I do this efficiently (i.e. without cut-pasting in Audacity 33 times)?
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Will editing an MP3 harm the quality?
I recently recorded something in MP3 — I should have done FLAC, but it’s way too late — and I wanted to edit those soundtracks from 5 minutes to about 2 minutes each. I edit in Audacity. Will loading ...
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Painlessly convert FLAC to ALAC on Windows?
I'm wondering if anyone has a clean, painless workflow for losslessly transcoding FLAC files to their equivalent ALAC? It's supposed to be a bit-perfect conversion, meaning it shouldn't be very hard, ...
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How can I convert an .mp3 to .flac?
Can someone tell me how I can convert an .mp3 audio file to .flac format using ffmpeg? I Googled extensively, but almost all resources point to converting .flac to .mp3, in such a way:
ffmpeg -i "...
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Command line tool to write flac, ogg vorbis and mp3 id3v2 meta data?
Is there any command line tool that can write all three formats/containers? I've already searched but could not find anything that does the job.
So far I'm using vorbiscomment, metaflac and id3tool ...
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Finding out if a FLAC or WAVPACK audio file is NOT originally encoded from a lossy source
Is there a way of checking that the so-called FLAC or WAVPACK audio file was originally encoded from a lossless source (WAV, CDA, APE, etc.) instead of a lossy source (MP3, AAC, ATRAC, etc.)?
Say I ...
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Understanding conversion and (de)compression of lossless audio
I have a few questions concerning lossless audio. I'm considering ripping my entire music collection to lossless .flac, but I want to understand a few things about it first.
If I have a file that is ....
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What is the current state of development for the FLAC codec? [closed]
I have a pretty large collection of FLAC files created from my CD collection. I love the FLAC format and the sound quality that you can get from it.
Lately, however, I've been trying to write a few ...
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How to verify FLAC files against the AccurateRip database?
I've been ripping my CD's to CUE+FLAC so that I get image files that allow me to replicate the actual CD. This serves me as a backup and as an easy access to the "media" if I need to re-rip the CD's (...
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FFmpeg - convert WebM/Opus to WAV or FLAC in single step?
I want to create WAV and FLAC audio files from WebM files with Opus audio streams, and I want to do so without further degrading the audio. I am currently using a 2-step process as follows (WAV ...
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How can I copy coverart from flac to opus with ffmpeg
I am trying to convert some flac files which all have coverart embedded to opus with ffmpeg. All but the coverart gets copied over just fine, but I find myself unable to move the cover over as well. ...
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ffmpeg to convert from flac to wav
I need to convert a flac file to a wav file without changing sample rate and bit depth. As far as I know changing these properties may distort the audio, so how do i specify them not to be changed?
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OS X alternatives to iTunes for playing FLAC
I am new to OS X and their player iTunes doesn't seem to like FLAC (they support only ALAC). I am looking for a player to play FLACs.
I know VLC does the job, but is there any player that can:
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Windows: Recursively convert FLAC to MP3 w/ ffmpeg
I have ffmpeg installed and use batch files to convert MP4 h.264 to MKV x.265 successfully, but I have a problem with converting FLAC files to 320 kbps MP3 w/ no metadata needed. Although many posts ...
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Which lossless audio format should I use when storing them on my NAS?
I have started a project of ripping my big collection of CDs and storing them on my NAS. Since I care for audio quality I have decided to store them in a lossless format. Right now I have tried to use ...
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Burning FLAC Files Directly to CD Audio?
Is there a simple, direct way to burn FLAC files to audio CDs? I would like to do it without first converting my FLAC files to a WAV format first. I am aware the official FLAC site has a list of ...
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Any NAS servers that stream FLAC audio?
I can't seem to find a NAS solution, aside from a custom built one, that is able to stream FLAC audio via UPnP. Streaming seems to be limited to MP3 or other popular formats. Do any exist that will ...
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How to compare two lossless audio files?
I have an M4A file which is also converted to a FLAC file. I'd like to see if the conversion is lossless, namely, whether the output to pcm from M4A is exactly identical to the one from FLAC decoding.
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Converting FLAC to MP3 using FFMPEG?
So I am using ffmpeg to convert flac files from a certain folder to mp3 at 320k bitrate.
I am using this answer as a reference.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/41096234/9259505
So the command I use in ...
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How can I make a FLAC+cue from multiple FLAC files?
I've tried Googling but can only find guides for the other way around.
I have a few flac files from an album, all properly tagged. I'd like to make them into a single flac file with a cuesheet ...
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Split audio file with cue file
I have a FLAC file and a CUE file. Using the command line, I would like to split this file, with one track per file.
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How to split big flac file int tracks and fill the id3 tag?
I have a music album, but whole album is in single flac file and tracks are listed in cue file. So I'd like to split it into tracks, but also fill the id3 tags and name files by track name.
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How to make VLC show single FLAC file containing many tracks as separate tracks
I have a single .flac file that encompasses multiple tracks comprising a music album along with the corresponding .cue file. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with VLC player, and am trying to get VLC player ...
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How to check if a FLAC file was made from MP3? [duplicate]
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Finding out if a FLAC or WAVPACK audio file is NOT originally encoded from a lossy source
Sometimes I doubt that FLAC files are made from original music, because of deaf-dumb-...
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Application that is able to edit FLAC files
Does anyone know one? If possible free, or at least not so expensive as Adobe Audition :D
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Changing the Album on FLAC files from the command line in Linux
I have a folder of FLACs that I want to change the album on. I use Ubuntu linux with Gnome. Is there a command line program that can do what I need? I can't seem to find an appropriate program.
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What are the basic components of an "audiophile" PC? [closed]
For the purpose of listening to lossless files (i.e., FLAC), is it simply a high quality sound card + high quality speaker?
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How can I convert DSD file formats to FLAC, WAV, (etc) with Linux?
I've recently started getting into more higher end HiFi, and found some downloads which are only available to buy in DSD format. (No FLAC available.)
Can I convert to/from DSD formats to FLAC using ...
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Converting FLAC to ALAC, preserving tags - in a script
I'm currently building a script to maintain parallel music libraries, because I have devices that can't play FLAC, but prefer to store my music in that format. However, I'm having some trouble with ...
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foobar2000 library: "*.flac; *.ape" vs "*.cue"
In a huge and diverse music library there are albums of the following two types:
Consisting of media files and a CUE file (most of the albums are of this type)
Consisting of media files only
For ...
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File transfer freezes upon various type of files via MTP transfer
There is a problem when I try to transfer various type of files to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (latest firmware, os ver. 4.4.4).
For now problem occur with .flac and .ogg files, but I'm sure issue isn't ...
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How to delete the embedded picture and add lyrics in flac?
According to FLAC Documentation, pictures can be stored in flac audio format, but lyrics (maybe lrc, srt, or even ass/ssa) isn't mentioned in that documentation.
So, how to delete the embedded ...
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How can I add FLAC files to my iTunes library on Windows?
I want to add FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files on my iTunes Library. I googled on how to do so, and found Fluke for Mac, which looks great, except that I don't have a Mac. I have iTunes 9 on ...
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Covert FLAC to AIFF while saving tags/metadata
I need a command-line tool to convert a bunch of XXX.flac files to XXX.aiff while preserving the tags (artist, title, album, etc.). None of the tools I tried (ffmpeg, sox, flac) seem to do the job ...
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FFMPEG conversion from MP3 to FLAC - why is the file so large?
So for various reasons I'm converting an MP3 to a FLAC with the following:
ffmpeg -i x.mp3 -map 0 -map -0:v -compression_level 5 x.flac
x.mp3 is 21MB and the resultant x.flac is 102MB
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EAC & FLAC: The cue sheet can be applied to which file?
I just encoded a CD to FLAC with the help of EAC (Exact Audio Copy) and I was wondering if the cue sheet can be used for the .wav file only or for the .flac file to? The CD is encoded into a single ...
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What tools similar to Tag&Rename exist?
I've got a media library consisting of a set of roughly 8000 MP3 (purchased from Amazon MP3), AAC (purchased from the iTunes Music Store - Unencrypted), and FLAC (ripped from my own physical disks) ...
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Determining Framerate of H.264 stream
I have encoded a video from Lagarith to H.264 using x264, and I might have inadvertently forgotten to write down it's framerate.
The video stream itself isn't in any container (just a h264 file), so ...
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How to merge FLAC files into single, eventually chaptered, file?
Windows Phone doesn't support gapless audio playback, so albums whose tracks are meant to segue into one another are ruined (there's a pause or a click when switching tracks).
I would like to try ...
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Can't split 24bit flac files on the command line
I am trying to export a 24bit flac file in my ubuntu terminal. I've tried two different methods, but neither work.
Method 1: shntool
when I run this command:
shntool split -f times.cue -O always -o ...
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How to get ffmpeg to copy lyrics from flac to mp3?
Using ffmpeg 4.2.1, Windows 10 64-bit, at the command line to convert.
I am also using Tag&Rename and iTunes to set and view any ID3 tags.
Here is the ffmpeg command I am using: ffmpeg -i input....
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How ffmpeg maps metadata?
I have my music library on my machine in flac and ogg format. However, to be able to listen to the music in the car, I convert the flac/ogg files to mp3 using ffmpeg. There are a couple of issues ...
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Ripping to FLAC as close to original CD quality as possible (Rubyripper)
I just started re-ripping CDs, but I'm not sure I'm getting the most out of them possible. Right now in Rubyripper I'm using --best -V for FLAC, but is that going to give me quality as close to the ...
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