flac2ogg

Flac2ogg is an automated Audio file converter.

At the beginning, aim of flac2ogg was to produce high quality ogg files out of (preferably) lossless formats like FLAC/WAVE/WavePack. Over time it evolved of ability to produce small-sized mp3 files out of anything.

Of course there is no constraints on what source files would be and what output format will be, so there is a possibility to create ogg form low quality mp3 files, nevertheless it doesn't make any sense :) This script automate conversion between different type of audio formats.

Requirements

• python in version 2.7 or 3
• mutagen python library for tag read/write
• vorbis tools for ogg files encode/decode
• lame for mp3 files encode/decode
• flac for flac files decode
• mac for Monkey audio codecs/ape files decode
• wavpack for wavpack files decode
• mplayer for m4a files decode
• shntool and cuetools for splitting monolithic CD dump files

Supported formats

Conversion can be performed from the following formats:

• FLAC
• MP3
• MP4
• WAVE
• WavePack
• Ape
• Ogg Vorbis

Currently supported encoders:

• Ogg Vorbis
• MP3 (lame)

There is an option to set the quality for the encoders - for Ogg files there would be used an -q option for oggenc command, and for the mp3 format, -V option would be used for lame command. Consult corresponding man pages for details.

Usage

Given that there are couple of music files, simplest usage is as follows:

$ flac2ogg.py directory_of_music_files/*

All files from that directory will be encoded to ogg by defaults. If there are already some ogg files, new files would have _encoded_ added into the filename. Note, that output files will be placed next to the original files.

License

This work is licensed on 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE file for details.