FLAC & ALAC Commands

flac2alac.sh

# delete all FLAC files recursively
find ./* -depth -type f -name \*.flac -delete

# list all FLAC files recursively
find ./* -depth -type f -name \*.flac

# convert all FLAC files to ALAC recursively
find ./* -depth -type f -name \*.flac | parallel -j+0 --gnu nice -n 19 ffmpeg -i "{}" -c:a alac "{.}.m4a"

# convert FLAC to ALAC and strip album art
ffmpeg -i INPUT -c:a alac -map 0:a -map -0:v [OUTPUT]

# show a file's stream count in JSON format
ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams [INPUT] | jq '{name: .format["filename"], streams: .streams | length}'