This worked great, but make sure you have “lame” and “flac”

sudo apt-get install flac
sudo apt-get install lame

Then in the folder with all the .flac files:

for f in *.flac; do flac -cd "$f" | lame -b 320 - "${f%.*}".mp3; done

10 comments on “How to convert FLAC to MP3, Ubuntu command line ”

1. Ubuntoid says:

   June 25, 2013 at 09:25

   Nope, what repo are these in? apt-cache and apt-get could find neither flac nor lame.

2. jat255 says:

   July 6, 2013 at 03:03

   josh@josh-ThinkPad:/run$ apt-cache policy flac
   flac:
   Installed: 1.2.1-6build1
   Candidate: 1.2.1-6build1
   Version table:
   *** 1.2.1-6build1 0
   500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
   100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

   josh@josh-ThinkPad:/run$ apt-cache policy lame
   lame:
   Installed: 3.99.5+repack1-3
   Candidate: 3.99.5+repack1-3
   Version table:
   *** 3.99.5+repack1-3 0
   500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
   100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

   main and universe repos, respectively. On raring, at least…

3. gallagherrobby says:

   September 13, 2013 at 08:48

   iDealshare VideoGo is just the professional FLAC Converter which can fast and batch convert FLAC files to lossless audio format like Apple Lossless ALAC M4A, AIFF, WAV, AU, APE, or convert FLAC to lossy audio format like AAC, WMA, AIFF, OGG, MP3 and etc

4. gerardglove says:

   September 17, 2013 at 03:55

   Another way is to convert FLAC to iPhone supported format. Bigasoft Audio Converter is just the professional FLAC to iPhone Converter which can fast and batch convert FLAC files to iPhone supported format. It can either convert FLAC to iPhone supported lossless audio format like Apple Lossless ALAC M4A, AIFF, WAV; or convert FLAC to iPhone supported lossy audio format like AAC or MP3.

5. Vedavrat says:

   November 1, 2013 at 17:48

   Thank you! It works!
   But 320 kbps is so much for me… Therefore i put ‘lame -b 320 …’ for speech.

6. Bleh says:

   November 3, 2013 at 00:24

   Using ffmpeg (and without an ugly for loop).

   http://lewisdiamond.blogspot.ca/2012/01/converting-flac-to-mp3.html

   find -name “*.flac” -exec ffmpeg -i {} -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k {}.mp3 \;