diff --git a/wiki/linux/flac.md b/wiki/linux/flac.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1922e4b --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/linux/flac.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Flac + +`flac` - short for Free Lossless Audio Codec - is a audio codec without +compression losses. +On most distributions it is bundled together with the tagging software +`metaflac` and other auxiliary tools in the `flac` package. + +## Splitting Flac file according to cue file + +An easy way to split flac files according to a cue file is using +`cuebreakpoints` and `shnsplit`. +On most distributions they are in a package with the same name. +The following line of shell command splits a flac file according to a cue file. +The `-o` tag specifies the output file format. + +```sh +cuebreakpoints '' | shnsplit -o flac '