ffmpeg to convert from flac to wav

ffmpeg wav wave flac
user3580089 picture user3580089 · Apr 28, 2014 · Viewed 30.8k times · Source

I need to convert a flac file to a wav file without changing sample rate and bit depth. As far as I know changing these properties may distort the audio, so how do i specify them not to be changed?

Also, is there any way to prevent metadata to be written to the output file?

Answer

Multimedia Mike picture Multimedia Mike · Apr 30, 2014

As rogerdpack commented, the command line:

ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac output.wav

should do exactly what you want.

Addressing your concerns about keeping the resulting audio intact, FLAC is a lossless format and decoding it to raw PCM stored in a WAV file will keep perfect fidelity. The only thing you might have to be concerned about is if your FLAC file is a higher than normal bit depth like 24, 32 or 64 bits per sample, or has a crazy multichannel configuration. I haven't kept up on whether FFmpeg supports all those combinations. However, most FLAC files are just 16-bit, 44.1 kHz audio files, so this shouldn't be an issue.

About scrubbing metadata, check this Superuser question.

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