FLAC --> MP3 Conversion

Swordfish · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:29

Hi All,

I have a huge collection of FLAC files that need converting to MP£ and was wodneirng if anyone knows of a decent freeware utility that will do it for me. I have looked at the collection on the stick list, but there are tons here.

Ideally I would like one that I can select several files and right click and convert.

Any suggestions.

Cheers

james.miller · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:32

what media player do you use? foobar has a built in convertor that'll convert anything it can play. i use it to convert my music when i want to stick some on my mp3 player

Swordfish · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:34

WMP or VLC depending on what I'm doing, WMP for ripping and VLC for listening. Tried foobar last night and did not really like the layout.

swinnie · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:40

Just found this in the Freeware Utilities list.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

Says it can do FLAC.

Swordfish · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:46

swinnie said:
Just found this in the Freeware Utilities list.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

Says it can do FLAC.

Tried that one, keps crashing if I select more that one file at a time by right clicking.

gurusan · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:49

dbpoweramp. excellent program, free to try for 21 days
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/download.htm

dbmzk1 · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:54

dBpoweramp is brilliant, I'd defiantly recommend it. It's totally free, you just don't get advanced features which you wont need anyway!

Swordfish · 6 Jul 2008 at 15:56

gurusan said:
dbpoweramp. excellent program, free to try for 21 days
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/download.htm

Right, got this one but everyitme I try and convert it keep scoming up with errors as trhere is no flac decoder installed. Suggestions? Very much a noob when it comes to codecs etc

OK Lads got the codec now everything seems fine, cracking prog by the looks of it and does what I want it to do.

Cheers all.

gurusan · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:00

go back to the DL page and look at the "after downloading" links. One of them is a codec pack

dbmzk1 · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:13

Swordfish said:
Right, got this one but everyitme I try and convert it keep scoming up with errors as trhere is no flac decoder installed. Suggestions? Very much a noob when it comes to codecs etc

OK Lads got the codec now everything seems fine, cracking prog by the looks of it and does what I want it to do.

Cheers all.

gurusan said:
go back to the DL page and look at the "after downloading" links. One of them is a codec pack

Here is a link - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-flac.htm

Glaucus · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:16

Why would you wont to convert flac to mps :confused:

Trifid · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:17

Swordfish said:
WMP or VLC depending on what I'm doing, WMP for ripping and VLC for listening. Tried foobar last night and did not really like the layout.

So change it.

Columns UI is dead easy to configure.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/Trifid/foobars.gif < has changed slightly since then. Simple to convert with Foobar requiring just a right click on selected tracks and choosing convert.

AcidHell2 said:
Why would you wont to convert flac to mps

MP3 player?

Glaucus · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:18

Trifid said:
MP3 player?

Good point totally forgot about those things.

Trifid · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:22

If it is for MP3 player, have a look at MediaMonkey, think it can auto sync library and convert to MP3.

dbmzk1 · 6 Jul 2008 at 16:31

AcidHell2 said:
Why would you wont to convert flac to mps

I converted a bunch yesterday to put some songs on my PS3.

Swordfish · 6 Jul 2008 at 17:56

AcidHell2 said:
Why would you wont to convert flac to mps

MP3/4 Players and mobile phone.

Thats all