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Convert .wav files to .flac

Source: R/wav_2_flac.R
wav_2_flac.Rd

wav_2_flac converts several .wav files to .flac compressed lossless format

Usage

wav_2_flac(files = NULL, path = NULL, overwrite = FALSE,
pb = TRUE, parallel = 1, reverse = FALSE, compression = 5, flac.path)

Arguments

files

character vector with the names of files to be converted. If NULL all files in the working directory (or 'path' if supplied) are converted.

path

Character string containing the directory path where the .wav files are located. If NULL (default) then the current working directory is used.

overwrite

Logical. Control whether a .flac sound file that is already in the working directory should be overwritten.

pb

Logical argument to control if progress bar is shown. Default is TRUE. It can also be set globally using the 'pb' option (see warbleR_options).

parallel

Numeric. Controls whether parallel computing is applied. It specifies the number of cores to be used. Default is 1 (i.e. no parallel computing). It can also be set globally using the 'parallel' option (see warbleR_options).

reverse

Logical argument to control if .wav files are converted into .flac files (default, reverse = FALSE) or .flac files are converted into .wav files reverse = TRUE.

compression

Numeric string on length 1 indicating the level of compression for .flac files. Must a number between 0 (lowest) to 8 (highest compression). Default is 5.

flac.path

Path to the flac program, mostly needed for windows OS.

Value

.flac files saved in the working directory with same name as original wav files.

Details

The function will convert all .wav files in working directory or 'path' supplied to .flac format (or the opposite if reverse = TRUE). For reading 'flac' files on windows the path to the .exe is required. This can be set using the 'flac.path' argument (or globally using the same argument in warbleR_options). Note that reading 'flac' files requires creating a temporary copy in 'wav' format, which can be particularly slow for long files.

convert all .wav files in working directory to .flac compressed lossless format. It's just a silly wrapper over (wav2flac) to simplify converting several files at once. The function works recursively, converting files within all subfolders.

Author

Marcelo Araya-Salas (marcelo.araya@ucr.ac.cr)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# create some .wav files
data(list = c("Phae.long1", "Phae.long2", "Phae.long3", "Phae.long4"))
writeWave(Phae.long1, file.path(tempdir(), "Phae.long1.wav"))
writeWave(Phae.long2, file.path(tempdir(), "Phae.long2.wav"))
writeWave(Phae.long3, file.path(tempdir(), "Phae.long3.wav"))
writeWave(Phae.long4, file.path(tempdir(), "Phae.long4.wav"))

# Convert all files to .flac format
wav_2_flac(path = tempdir())

# check this folder!!
open_wd(tempdir())
}