Flacon Extraction Tool on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint. Extracts individual tracks (Single MP3 files) from audio CD or large audio file containing the entire album of music. It saves the extracted track as a separate audio file. Flacon tool supports various audio formats – WavPack, APE, FLAC, WAV or True Audio.
To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Besides, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately.
It also features output format settings. Users can set the output quality, compression and other settings of the audio file to be extracted.
Flacon features:
- Supports the following input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
- Supported output formats: LAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG, MP3 and Opus (with the latest Flacon 1.2.0) with preset and quality settings, etc.;
- Replay Gain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes);
- Multi-threaded conversion process;
- Automatic character set detection for CUE files;
- Automatically tag resulting track files;
- Generation of the pertrack CUE file in the output dir.
Install Flacon in Ubuntu or Linux Mint
Flacon 1.2.0 is the latest release of the Flacon software. It brings the following changes:
- Qt5 support
- Added support for Opus output files
- Added support for OS/2
- Translations updated
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Flacon 1.2.0 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint Systems, via its official PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flacon
Flacon tool can also be installed on other Linux distributions. Please visit the Flacon downloads page for more information.
Once installed, you can open the Flacon tool via Ubuntu Dash.
If you aren’t happy with the software, you can uninstall and remove the Flacon from Ubuntu Systems. To do so, run the following commands:
sudo apt-get remove flacon