I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I decided to convert my flac files into mp3 and I prefer minimum amount of quality loss; what is the best software for it?

  • Doesn’t matter if conversion take some time if the quality would be decent.
  • sub_o@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I dunno, I normally use my bash script + ffmpeg to convert batch flacs to mp3s

    #!/bin/bash
    
    cd "${1}"
    
    for subdir in *; do
        cd "${subdir}"
    
        for input in *.flac; do
            echo ${input%.*}
            ffmpeg -i "${input}" -ab 320k  -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${input%.*}.mp3" && rm "${input}"
        done
    
        cd ..
    done
    

    Then i’d just run my script.sh [directory that contains flac] you might want to remove && rm "${input}" if you don’t want it to delete your flac files automatically.