# Re: Audio conversion in Windows, FLAC to MP3, etc

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-audio-conversion-in-windows-flac-to-mp3-etc/79964 "2006-12-20T19:14:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-audio-conversion-in-windows-flac-to-mp3-etc/79964/1 "2006-12-20T19:14:28Z")

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Dear David,  
I don’t know of anyrthing particular Rubyish,  
but otherwise, there is Sox (Sound exchange), which has a  
Windows binary and tar files you could compile under  
Mingw or Cygwin, if you like  
\_[SoX - Sound eXchange | HomePage](http://sox.sourceforge.net/_) ([http://sox.sourceforge.net/](http://sox.sourceforge.net/))  
You can use it as a command-line tool, there are  
some descriptions for conversions between  
flac and mp3 and other formats here:

_[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/11/convert_audio_between_mp3_flac).  
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([http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/11/convert\_audio\_between\_mp3\_flac.html](http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/11/convert_audio_between_mp3_flac.html))

Best regards,

Axel