Questions tagged [flac]
FLAC (acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio compression codec without loss of information.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Embed album art image to FLAC file with ffmpeg
i am trying to embed Album Art to a FLAC file with ffmpeg.
It seems that it cannot embed Album Art to a FLAC File and the file that is generated has zero length.
I know that you can put the image in ...
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Can't convert FLAC to MP3 with FFmpeg
How can I convert FLAC to MP3 using FFmpeg?
What I've tried:
ffmpeg -i "file.flac" "file.mp3"
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (flac -> ?)
Encoder (codec none) not found for output ...
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