Audio conversion Software

Audio Conversion Software

The following are some very useful programs for audio conversion. SoX has a horrible interface but can convert many formats to many others and can apply filters, rate conversions, etc. These are scriptable and very useful when processing large groups of audio files.

• SoX is the Swiss Army knife of sound editors. It can convert from just about any file to any other.

• LAME MP3 Encoder able to encode from wave and other formats into MP3.

• MPG321 which may be used to decode from MP3 to wave.

• LIBMAD MP3 decoder software.

• Gnac An audio converter for Gnome.

• sneetchalizer a CLI script which converts between several different formats and preserves meta-tags.

• VLC VLC has an audio converter. Look under Media->Convert/Save to begin converting audio or video.

See also

• Applications
• Audio conversion - Examples of audio conversion scripts
• Audio formats