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Reputation: 2045

Is there a simple C or C++ library for transcoding FLAC to MP3?

Right now, I'm taking the easy way out in my command line program by calling on the flac, metaflac and lame binaries, and of course, requiring that they are installed.

I would prefer to use a library to avoid this dependency. I find the documentation of libFLAC, LAME, and FFmpeg insufficient and programming them is not intuitive. Related questions here at StackOverflow receive terse answers referring to those libraries.

Are there any other options?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1423

Answers (2)

steveha
steveha

Reputation: 76715

Your choice is to require that the flac and lame programs are installed, or require that the libraries are installed. Why is it easier to require libraries than to require command-line tools?

So, I strongly recommend that you just keep on doing what you are doing. If you were writing a media player, it would make sense to use the libraries and decode the FLAC files yourself; but if you are just transcoding to MP3, the command-line tools are as good as any other solution, and simpler. I think simplest is best.

"Are there just no options?" I don't know what you mean by that; there are always options. But without question, it will be more work to figure out how to call the libraries directly than to just call the command-line tools. And if you already have a working solution involving the command-line tools, I suggest you just keep using it.

Upvotes: 0

sfstewman
sfstewman

Reputation: 5677

Take a look at the GStreamer library. It may have what you want.

Upvotes: 2

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