Convert Audio File Formats From The Linux Command Line

Posted By Weston Ganger

I wanted to shrink the size of some .wav files by converting them to .mp3

Theres a great command line tool you can install called libav-tools


To install on Ubuntu run this, otherwise use your distro’s install method


sudo apt-get install libav-tools

Now you can convert files with this simple command syntax.


avconv -i file1.wav file2.mp3


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Article Topic:Software Development - Linux

Date:December 13, 2015