Tools/Audio

Free and libre audio editors

There is some good audio editors out there that fits the need, to name a few:

• Audacity — Featured libre audio editor with lots of useful plugins, ✅️ Recommended.

Free and libre audio tools

🚧️ TODO: ffmpeg for reducing from stereo to mono.

Tools to convert to Opus

• opusenc is an Opus audio converter, by IETF, Xiph.Org and Skype, ✅️ Recommended;
• ffmpeg is a multi-codec tool that can converts many audio formats to Opus.

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Tutorial

The recommended way to produce an Opus file with opusenc is to do:

opusenc file.wav file.opus

Tools to convert to OGG Vorbis

• oggenc is a Vorbis audio converter, by Xiph.Org, ✅️ Recommended;
• ffmpeg is a multi-codec tool that can converts many audio formats to OGG vorbis.

Tools to convert to FLAC

• flac is a FLAC audio converter, by Xiph.Org, ✅️ Recommended;
• ffmpeg is a multi-codec tool that can converts many audio formats to FLAC.

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Tutorial

The best way to produce the smallest FLAC file with flac is to do:

flac --exhaustive-model-search --best --no-padding --no-seektable file.wav --output-name=file.flac

Recommended audio formats

Those are recommended audio formats to be used in source repositories and in game to be delivered to players, and related tools.

Purpose	Kind	Format	Tool
Source	All sound files	flac	Audacity, flac
Purpose	Kind	Format	Tool
Release	All sound files	opus	opusenc

See also Formats/Audio.