Flac to mp3?

[chrispche]

Hi this might be an easy question. How do you convert a flac file to mp3? Well I have an entire album to convert actually.

Thanks in advance.

[whoop]

http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

[ron999]

... How do you convert a flac file to mp3? Well I have an entire album to convert actually.

Easiest way with Ubuntu is
Applications > Sound & Video > Sound Converter

[stefangr1]

Hi this might be an easy question. How do you convert a flac file to mp3? Well I have an entire album to convert actually.

Thanks in advance.

I always use this little script for that:

#!/bin/sh

for file in */*.flac
do
	flac -d "$file"
	lame -V 0 "${file%\.*}.wav" "${file%\.*}.mp3"
	rm "${file%\.*}.wav" "${file%\.*}.flac"
done

exit 0

Note that this script also removes the original!

[ajgreeny]

I prefer ffmpeg, as it gives you so many possibilities for control of the quality. Perhaps lame does as well, but I have never used that on its own, always through ffmpeg.

You also may need the following lib files from medibuntu to enable mp3 encoding in ffmpeg.
libavcodec-extra-52 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1+medibuntu1)
libavdevice-extra-52 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1+medibuntu1)
libavfilter0 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1)
libavformat-extra-52 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1+medibuntu1)
libavutil-extra-49 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1+medibuntu1)

To convert audio flac file to mp3.

ffmpeg -i file.flac -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k file.mp3

-acodec is the audio codec libmp3lame
-ab is audio bitrate

Or:

ffmpeg -i file.flac -acodec libmp3lame -aq # file.mp3

-aq # is vbr quality - 1(high) - 9(low)

[chrispche]

Thank you all.