Anyone know of a script/command to convert audio files to flac?

[user1397]

I know that I'll be losing quality, it's just sortof an experiment type of thing. I want to listen to the original files and then the converted flac files, and perhaps rip an album in flac, and compare all 3 using my ear as judge.

EDIT: heh, guess SoundConverter works just fine. Guess I'll post results soon.

[b0b138]

Well flac is a lossless codec (Free Lossless Audio Codec) so any conversion to flac will be the same as the original.

[howefield]

ripperx will do it for you. It can be installed with Synaptic Package Manager.

[pwnst*r]

Well flac is a lossless codec (Free Lossless Audio Codec) so any conversion to flac will be the same as the original.

for the most part - but whatever you do, do NOT take that same now lossless file and convert back to lossy. you'll lose quality more than a typical lossless to lossy conversion.

[dragos240]

ffmpeg -i file.mp3 file.flac

you can use that.