I got some .flac files off a friend and they don't work in my media player.
What's the best way/program to convert them to .mp3? I know there's a few different programs out there, but I wanted to know which one is superior before trying them all.
I think you can even use Audacity for this task, since you'll have a wide range of selections, and it's free.
If you want to maintain the advantage of filesize from flac, and still have a player that plays all audio seamlessly and tenfold better than WMP, get foobar2000. The only real disadvantage is not being able to play movies.
Great equalizer as well.
As far as converting goes, I'm really not sure man- even as an audio engineer I rarely have to convert between the two as I find WAV files to be the main source of my work- when I have to do so, I convert with whichever program I am working in, and they all cost a pretty penny.
[QUOTE=DaveOfDefeat;22077952]If you want to maintain the advantage of filesize from flac, and still have a player that plays all audio seamlessly and tenfold better than WMP, get foobar2000. The only real disadvantage is not being able to play movies.
Great equalizer as well.
As far as converting goes, I'm really not sure man- even as an audio engineer I rarely have to convert between the two as I find WAV files to be the main source of my work- when I have to do so, I convert with whichever program I am working in, and they all cost a pretty penny.[/QUOTE]
Never said I use Windows Media Player.
I have to use iTunes cause of my bloody iPod :v:
[QUOTE=Kaburorne;22077975]Never said I use Windows Media Player.
I have to use iTunes cause of my bloody iPod :v:[/QUOTE]
Never said you did either haha- I was just using WMP as a standard since most people have used it before.
I don't know much about iTunes and its deal with playing on different things, but I am sure there is a way around it.
[QUOTE=DaveOfDefeat;22077998]Never said you did either haha- I was just using WMP as a standard since most people have used it before.
I don't know much about iTunes and its deal with playing on different things, but I am sure there is a way around it.[/QUOTE]
I know that iTunes can convert from .wav to .mp3, but that still leaves the problem of converting .flac to something else in the first place.
[QUOTE=Kaburorne;22078020]I know that iTunes can convert from .wav to .mp3, but that still leaves the problem of converting .flac to something else in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Are you able to use the FLAC files in a program other than iTunes? If so, I may have found the solution for you.
[URL="http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/08/14/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-windows/"]http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/08/14/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-windows/[/URL]
[url]http://xiph.org/quicktime/[/url]
[QUOTE=BmB;22078095][url]http://xiph.org/quicktime/[/url][/QUOTE]
It would be a good solution, but I need to change them to .mp3 to listen to them on my iPod (and elsewhere).
[QUOTE=DaveOfDefeat;22078073]Are you able to use the FLAC files in a program other than iTunes? If so, I may have found the solution for you.
[URL="http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/08/14/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-windows/"]http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/08/14/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-windows/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Yeah, saw that guide. Thanks for the help, I found an OK program for the job :)
[QUOTE=Kaburorne;22078139]It would be a good solution, but I need to change them to .mp3 to listen to them on my iPod (and elsewhere).
Yeah, saw that guide. Thanks for the help, I found an OK program for the job :)[/QUOTE]
no problem mate.
[QUOTE=Kaburorne;22078139]It would be a good solution, but I need to change them to .mp3 to listen to them on my iPod (and elsewhere).
Yeah, saw that guide. Thanks for the help, I found an OK program for the job :)[/QUOTE]
If iTunes can read them it should be able to transcode them into AAC for that.
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