Converting Between Audio File Formats

Posted: August 28th, 2007

In a previous post I explained a way to convert a cue/FLAC to mp3. Recently I had to convert a cue/APE to mp3. While searching for ways to do it I came across this post in the aidanhm’s stuff blog. While it has very few posts (the last one in mid February) it does have a few posts that explain how to convert between different file formats (APE, FLAC, WAV,…) and how to deal with cuesheets in Ubuntu.

Since it’s explained there, there’s no point in me repeating it here.

While I haven’t done any of this in Mac OS X, I did download xACT

xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end (written in AppleScript Studio) for the unix applications Shorten (3.5.1), shntool (2.0.3), monkey’s audio compressor (3.99),flac (1.1.3) and cdda2wav 2.01a32(with paranoia support).

I also looked at this page which explains how to use xACT to convert .flac files to mp3.

UPDATE:  Filipe IMed me about a better option for Mac OS X, Max.

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