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Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

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Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Hi!

I'm looking for a good transcoding program that can handle both WavPack and FLAC. Anything will do as long as it can handle lots of files at the same time and it doesn't mess with the quality of the data. If it could handle ALAC as well it'd be a plus, but it's not necessary.

Thanks!

ps. I don't really know where to ask this so if a mod think it should be moved somewhere else, be my guest.

unixNeophyte

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Registered: 2008-03-09

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

soundkonverter {community}

audiokonverter AUR

skottish

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

You can also probably write a simple script using wvunpack to unpack into wav, then use flac.

Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Thanks both of you.

Neophyte, I'd rather not install any KDE libs, but thanks for the suggestion.

Skottish, I'm really bad at bash scripts. If you could give me any pointers on where to start looking I'd appreciate it.

unixNeophyte

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Registered: 2008-03-09

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Neophyte, I'd rather not install any KDE libs, but thanks for the suggestion.

soundconverter is for Gnome [community repo]

Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Juuuust noticed. I dont know what I looked at, was dead sure it was KDE.

/confused

Anyways, it has a wee bit too many dependencies for me (I'm running a rather light desktop). But if I can't something to work with bash I'll give it a whirl.

Thanks!

skottish

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

This page suggests using a tool called shntool:

http://aidanjm.wordpress.com/2007/02/04 … in-ubuntu/

It's in AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=261

It looks as if a few edits to the script on that page will let you convert all the files in a directory.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Here is another possible solution (I haven't tried it myself, but it looks legit): http://legroom.net/software/convtoflac
I think all the required dependencies should be in repos/AUR.

Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 79

Re: Program for transcoding wavpack to flac?

Thanks both of you!

I tried the bash-script first as it was the lightest and it worked perfectly. Thanks!