flacsplit — split flac files into multiple mp3 files

Tool that uses flac, metaflac and lame to split single album FLAC files with embedded cue sheets into multiple mp3 files.

See flactag for tools to generate and maintain these flac files.

See LAME for more information on the MP3 encoder.

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flacsplit is Copyright (C) 2009–2019 Stephen Early steve@assorted.org.uk

It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see this link.

Features

• Run multiple instances of lame in parallel to speed up conversion

• Copy metadata and embedded album art into the output files

• Options to make output filenames safe for FAT filesystems

• Options to make the output directory structure duplicate that of the input

It should be possible to run this program on any system that supports python 3.6 or above.

Examples

Run the program to get a list of options:

./flacsplit.py --help

Run the program on a single input file:

./flacsplit.py input-file.flac

Run the program on a whole tree of flac files in ~/Music/flac-archive, generating a directory structure to match in ~/large/mp3-out, making the output filenames safe to use on a FAT filesystem and skipping any files that haven't changed since the last run:

find ~/Music/flac-archive -name "*.flac" -print0 | ./flacsplit.py \
  --verbose \
  --keep-directory-structure \
  --subdir \
  --fat-safe \
  --truncate-filenames 240 \
  --skip-newer \
  --null \
  --continue-on-error \
  --output-dir ~/large/mp3-out