How to convert wav to flac from python?

python audio converter wav flac
Charles W picture Charles W · May 29, 2014 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

I've just started using Python and am using the PyAudio and Wave modules to take sound from my microphone and convert it to a .wav file.

What I'm trying to do is now convert that .wav to a .flac. I've seen a few ways to do this which all involve installing a converter and placing it in my environmental PATH and calling it via os.system.

Are there any other ways to convert a .wav to a .flac via Python? The solution I'm looking for needs to work on both Windows and Linux.

Answer

CyberDuck picture CyberDuck · Oct 25, 2015

I have not tested this solution but you can use pydub

    from pydub import AudioSegment
    song = AudioSegment.from_wav("test.wav")
    song.export("testme.flac",format = "flac")

the conversion is supported with numerous file formats (see the ffmpeg supported file formats list herehttps://ffmpeg.org/general.html#Audio-Codecs

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