Recipe: Convert FLAC files to MP3
28 June 2010
This is another recipe-alike, self-reminder post. This one converts all
FLAC files in a directory to MP3, which I do hardly now (because I have
OGG-Vorbis support almost everywhere), but is still useful for
some hardware players. Also, note that this properly saves ID3 tags and
song length information (it took me some time to find about xingmux
,
which is in gst-plugins-ugly):
for i in *.flac ; do
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location="${i}"
! flacdec ! audioconvert ! lame vbr=4 bitrate=224
! xingmux ! id3mux ! filesink location="${i%.flac}.mp3"
done
Copy, paste, and you are done! ;)