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title:Notes about transcoding flac and ogg music files keywords:flac,ogg,vorbis,transcode,translate,change,convert,files,sound,music, description:Brief notes on transcoding flac to ogg or faac. This web page had good hints and supplied the flac2ogg.sh script: http://nlindblad.org/2007/01/13/a-few-thoughts-on-encoding/ Drop these two lines of text into a file flac2ogg.sh, and then chmod flac2ogg.sh to make it executable: #!/bin/bash flac -cd "${1}" | oggenc -b "192" -o "$(basename "${1}" .flac).ogg" - chmod +x flac2ogg.sh Use the find command and -exec to convert files. After conversion, copy the .m3u for the flac files and change the file extensions to .ogg. cd /mymusic/some_artist/some_album/ find . -name "*.flac" -exec sh ~/flac2ogg.sh {} \; This appears to be a command to transcode flac to faac: flac -dc filename.flac | faac - -o filename.mp4