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 file.
However today I noticed that bleep is…
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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',
kAudioFormatAppleIMA4 = 'ima4',
kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC = 'aac ',
kAudioFormatMACE3 …
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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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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 the best tools for doing this?
The quality of the…
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Program to convert flac to mp3?
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 . . .
EDIT: This is on Windows 7, but I also use…
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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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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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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 it, removing about half the track, and exporting…
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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 redundant data, able to be compressed away. So,…
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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 and I really would like to replace them by a single…
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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, but.... it is.
Why would I do this? (Before the…
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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 "input.flac" -ab 320k -map_meta_data 0:0 "output.mp3"
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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 .flac, and I want to make it into, say, .wav, how…
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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 have a lossy MP3 audio file (5.17Mb, 87% compressed…
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What is the current state of development for the FLAC codec?
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 tools to manipulate the files and I've been…
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