Flac/sox/etc With Mp3 Support?

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I need to convert a bunch of .flac files to .mp3 files, but the sox and flac command tools thats in the base repo won’t do that. EPEL doesn’t seem to have much either. I went looking at ATRPMS but am getting database errors from their home page :( I know rpmforge used to have this stuff, but its virtually unmaintained today so I’ve written it off.

any suggestions? I don’t really want to have to build this stuff from source.

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  • Name : sox-plugins-freeworld Version : 14.4.1
    Release : 3.el7.nux Architecture: x86_64
    Install Date: Thu 27 Nov 2014 01:00:11 PM CST
    Group : Applications/Multimedia Size : 122126
    License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
    Signature : RSA/SHA1, Tue 05 Aug 2014 02:30:05 AM CST, Key ID e98bfbe785c6cd8a Source RPM : sox-plugins-freeworld-14.4.1-3.el7.nux.src.rpm Build Date : Tue 05 Aug 2014 02:25:53 AM CST
    Build Host : rpmbuilder Relocations : (not relocatable)
    Packager : http://li.nux.ro/
    Vendor : Nux!
    URL : http://sox.sourceforge.net/
    Summary : A general purpose sound file conversion tool Description :
    SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.

    This package provides the plugin for MPEG-2 audio layer 3 audio (MP3) support.

  • The nux repo has most of the multimedia stuff and is more or less the go to repo these days.

    I would just use it to install ffmpeg which should include the needed codecs.

    ffmpeg -i myfile.flac myfile.mp3 will probably do it.

    (Untested–actually I built ffmpeg from source, because I wanted a later version, but that had more to do with some video stuff.)