ffmpeg
An awesome command line tool for converting multimedia formats
COMPUTER
ADP
4/29/20251 min read


I was looking for some freeware to quickly convert audio files, trying to avoid free online converters that I don't trust with my files, and I found this gem.
A command line tool that can convert audio as well as video.
For example, to convert a file called "rain" from wav format (or whatever) to mp3 format (or whatever), just run the following command in terminal from the directory that holds the original:
ffmpeg -i rain.wav rain.mp3
That's it!
Read more about it here. See it in action below.

