Bulk converting .flac files to .wav in mac?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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I think it’s way better to move files, check if the encoded ones are good to go and then delete the source - unless there are backups.

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sure, but i assume that the sample pack comes in some kind of archive which is the backup itself (unless it’s aready deleted).

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Thats why „unless“ :+1:

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so what would i do if there’s no backup —
rsync -avtH . ../backup_directory_name/
before running find.

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I prefer using ffmpeg since it can deal with flac, but also mp3, wav, webm and even movie files… A very powerful tool, that is well worth scripting for automating audio extraction or conversion.

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I use XLD to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless, but pretty sure it can convert to wav also. Has CLI also but I just use the gui.

https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

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yeah, but sometimes dedicated tools provide us with more options than ffmpeg libs, and in case of lossy formats sometimes dedicated tools can do better quality.

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Even more necroposting but…

More options than ffmpeg ? Highly doubt it… also:

in case of lossy formats sometimes dedicated tools can do better quality

ffmpeg uses the same libs any other software uses under the hood. Say you want to do mp3s, liblame is used, like almost everybody else, so quality is the same.

And we’re talking flac here… so no lossy format is involved. Signal is identical after the compression/deccompression cycle:

music_production/samples : ffmpeg -i test.wav test.flac
[...]
music_production/samples : ffmpeg -i test.flac test2.wav
[...]
music_production/samples : sha1sum test.wav 
e712a73fb9d361651f796335a1ac97079e15f168  test.wav
music_production/samples : sha1sum test2.wav
e712a73fb9d361651f796335a1ac97079e15f168  test2.wav
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