Questions tagged [flac]
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Does adding silence to a flac with an ffmpeg filter result in any quality loss?
I'm attempting to add a few seconds of silence to the end of several flac audio files. One recommended method is:
# ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc=channel_layout=stereo:sample_rate=48000 -t 5 silence....
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can't encode a WAV file to FLAC; returns 'ERROR: unsupported format type 3'
The error reportedly originates from files created on Windows. When attempting to convert, flac 1.4.3 prints:
$ flac --best ~/music/unknown-80s-german-song.wav
unknown-80s-german-song.wav: ERROR: ...
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How to copy all FLAC tags using ffmpeg?
I'm using ffmpeg to perform audio filtering on my music library. However, it is not copying all FLAC tags (in particular, it's dropping chapter information).
Copy all tags from one FLAC file to ...
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FLAC encoders – any difference in output between the command-line tools?
I would like to know if there is any difference in the final output between the various command-line tools for encoding FLAC files, like ffmpeg, sox, the “official” flac etc. In some contexts, I have ...
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Music player with seek function from command line
Popular Linux music players (Audacious, cmus...) don't have a seek function that can be invoked from command line. Is there any player with such a function to play FLAC format from a start time to an ...
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Unable to Compress MP3 with Flac
I am trying to use FLAC to compress an mp3 file like below:
flac -8 1-5f15c799beb953837480f0e29d872eb9.mp3
However, I keep getting the error
ERROR: input file 1-5f15c799beb953837480f0e29d872eb9.mp3 ...
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Modification Date on EXT4 files marked as Nov 29 1979
I am running Linux Mint 20.2 64 bit Cinnamon and these are FLAC files that are failing an integrity test. The files seem to play fine. Could this be because the Modification date is wrong. The date ...
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speech recording and translate
I have a problem with converting from "wav" to "flac".
Command:
arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 0 -q -r 16000 | flac - -s -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o daveconroy.flac
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What to do if easytag v. 2.4.2 corrupts flac files when saving an image to the metadata?
I experienced that my easytag version 2.4.2 has a bug which lets it corrupt flac files when trying to save a picture to them. It seems to depend on the size of the picture, smaller ones might work (e....
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How to convert APE files to FLAC in Linux?
is there a way to convert a bunch of APE files to FLAC in Linux without altering them in any way? I mean without applying any replaygain, etc..
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Need to convert a batch of wav in flac in different folder
I need to convert a lot of *.wav in different folder, i try to use find and flac to convert all this without missing name of the track in the folder.
This is the line I try to use :
find ./ -type f -...
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Analyse flac files in folder and delete all files with a bitrate under 950kbps
I'm looking for a simple shell command that analyses all flac files in a folder and deletes all files that have a lower bitrate than 950kbps.
Now I have to fire up Clementine, browse to the folder, ...
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Music player which supports custom FLAC tags
I'm reorganizing my music library and I'm hoping to use custom FLAC tags to better represent the contents of the files (most common tagging schemes work poorly for classical music, for example). ...
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Convert WAV to FLAC while preserving tags
Is there a command utility that can convert between various audio formats (or more specifically from wav to flac) while preserving tags? Or an utility that can copy tags from one audio file to ...
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Is there a way to convert flac files to ape?
I need to convert flac files to ape. Googled for that topic, but seems like ape file is outdated, so no solution was found. Any tools, ideas to resolve the problem?
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