I recently needed to convert some Apple Lossless music files to FLAC. Here’s how to do it:
If you don’t already have ffmpeg or libav-tools installed, do this:
$ sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Then run this to do the conversion, in the folder with music in:
$ for f in *.m4a; do avconv -i "$f" "${f%.m4a}.flac"; done
And that’s it - it will convert all the .m4a files in that folder to .flac files, preserving the metadata. You ...
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