Audio conversion

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Hello,


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Unfortunately the LAME encoder doesn't read FLAC files natively, though 
> there's probably a good argument for such support.  But you could do the 
> following:
>
> flac -dc <flacfile> |lame <lameopts> - <mp3file>
>
> This assumes you have lame and flac installed.
>
> The -d for flac tells flac to decode, and the -c tells it to write to 
> standard output.

I tried that but it didn't work. For some reason it didn't produce 
anything. When I used flac -d only and piped it to Lame, I still ended up 
with a wave file. I ended up doing flac -d <flacfile> for each track and 
then ran Autolame which converted the lot from wave to mp3.

Thanks for putting me on the right track. I'd never heard about flac.

Bertil