Posted Aug 3, 2017
Posted Nov 1, 2016
Convert to FLAC is a BASH shell script, and was originally written for use under Linux. It should, however, run under any OS that supports BASH.
Convert to FLAC currently supports the following input formats:
- Apple Lossless (ALAC) - requires alac and mp4info (for metadata) binaries
- FLAC (eg., for transcoding to a different compression ratio)
- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) - commonly found on DVD-Audio and Blu-ray discs; requires
ffmpeg
- Monkey's Audio (APE) - requires mac and apeinfo (for metadata) binaries
- Shorten - requires
shorten
binary - True Audio (TTA) - requires
ttaenc
binary - WAVE
- WavPack - requires
wvunpack
binary - Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA) - requires
ffmpeg
You can find the script on LegRoom.net and GitHub.