Flacon is an audio file encoder designed to split album-length recordings into individual tracks. It uses a CUE sheet to identify track boundaries, making it particularly useful for music collections stored as single large audio files.
The application provides a graphical interface for preparing albums, checking track information and choosing encoding options. It can process recordings in several lossless formats, including FLAC and WavPack, and generate individual files for use in music players and library managers. Flacon also offers console operation for workflows that don’t require the graphical interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack and True Audio (TTA) input formats.
- Produces FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, Ogg Vorbis and MP3 output files.
- Edit metadata at album or individual track level, including date, genre, songwriter and catalogue number.
- Perform ReplayGain analysis using album gain or track gain modes.
- Use multithreaded encoding to process tracks concurrently.
- Automatically detect the character encoding of CUE sheets.
- Generate individual track CUE sheets in the output directory.
- Check source material for problems, including mixed-disc track information, before conversion.
- View diagnostic logs and check output files for errors.
- Configure a proxy server when retrieving album information from the internet.
- Use filename patterns to organise encoded tracks according to their metadata.
Website: flacon.github.io
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Developer: Alexander Sokoloff
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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