Flac to MP3

fail at the internets · 20 Nov 2008 at 10:43

Hi i was wondering whats the best/easiest way to turn lots of Flac files to mp3 in the highest quality possible whilst retaining all the tags and stuff.

Thanks, any help would be MUCH appreciated.

Hamster · 20 Nov 2008 at 11:57

You can many of apps to do this. Tags aren't retained as FLAC are tagged with Vorbis comments (if they are properly made) but most programs will convert these to ID tags. One of the easiest to use is dbpoweramp with the LAME codec. You can't get better results than this.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm

flip · 20 Nov 2008 at 13:14

use foobar2000, load all the flac, then right click convert to menu

select your mp3 options

I use this to copy my flac files to itunes

fliP.

pduk · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:29

A second vote here for dbpoweramp. I use it all the time to convert between various formats and it has a nice plugin architecture. Some of the encoders (LAME for example) are also optimised for multi core CPUs.

Skidilliplop · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:31

I use EAC (Exact Audio Copy) Much the same as any other Add all the flac files to the list and then set the MP3 options and convert.

Hamster · 20 Nov 2008 at 16:40

Since OP is looking for the easiest way, i'd definitely choose dbpoweramp over foobar2000 and EAC as it requires next to no setting up and is the most intuitive of the options. EAC and Foobar2000 are excellent programs in their own right though; Foobar2000 is my audio player and i use EAC for ripping to FLAC.