samsiam Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 How do you convert Flac files to mp3 ?? I have 'anyvideo converter'...but does not do these files.....free quick and simple download recommended ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWalkingMan Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I believe Format Factory should get it done for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penkoprod Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Ignore.......i missed the "free" part of the OP Edited July 10, 2012 by Penkoprod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoloFlyer Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 media monkey on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happynthailand Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 do a search for"free flac to mp3",use it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgs2001uk Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 http://www.nchsoftware.com/ use it all the time, easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeWee Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Format Factory 2.70 will do. It's a free program look at www.pcfreetime.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) My vote would be for Foobar or perhaps Media Monkey. Foobar is about as good it gets for anything to do with audio playback. Edited July 10, 2012 by Darrel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon2 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Switch sound file converter is also easy to use,and have all that you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonarax Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 lol Flac, why do you guys bother? Do you have 10k audio system like bang & olufsen. 192 VBR is all you need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2unique Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Polysoft do a free flac to mp3 converter which doesn't chop your file down to 2 minutes like some!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 lol Flac, why do you guys bother? ......... 192 VBR is all you need It may be all you need, but it doesn't suit me. I can easily hear the difference between any bitrate of mp3 and flac (or other lossless methods). In fact a large amount of my audio is SACD and the difference between that and regular CD is pretty astounding as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 I'll give foobar a look first. I can only tell the diff a little bit between flac and an mp3...but think that is my personal tone deaf issues. I downloaded an album and it was in flac...so need to convert it to go to cd for my car.....still old fashioned in the car with cd player only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 http://www.nchsoftware.com/ use it all the time, easy to use. Dowloaded this one...after downloading Foobar...but it is only a player...if it converts to mp3...buggered if I know how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgs2001uk Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 http://www.nchsoftware.com/ use it all the time, easy to use. Dowloaded this one...after downloading Foobar...but it is only a player...if it converts to mp3...buggered if I know how. Which parts did you download, all the options? Follow the above link, on the top LH side click audio, next page top RH side Switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Conversion in Foobar is very easy. Right-click on the file: convert. Select the desired options of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 http://www.nchsoftware.com/ use it all the time, easy to use. Dowloaded this one...after downloading Foobar...but it is only a player...if it converts to mp3...buggered if I know how. Which parts did you download, all the options? Follow the above link, on the top LH side click audio, next page top RH side Switch Dunno...whatever it told me to do......done and dusted anyway and converted all the files I wanted done....so worked fine thanks Conversion in Foobar is very easy. Right-click on the file: convert. Select the desired options of course. Bugger...didn't see that when I did click on it....but did use 'open with' and then Foobar....but only opened it play...not convert and nothing to indicate convert that I could see. Never mind, thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 They all do sound a bit 'tinny' though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyL Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 You can try this "quick and easy" freeware named CDEX: http://sourceforge.n...09.exe/download Another one (also a freeware) is better, but (IMHO), a little bit less easy to use, it's EAC (Exact Audio Copy): http://www.exactaudi...urces/download/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Found a wonderful new song since conversion....first time I've heard it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Bugger...didn't see that when I did click on it....but did use 'open with' and then Foobar....but only opened it play...not convert and nothing to indicate convert that I could see. Once you have opened the file in Foobar, just right-click on it in the Foobar playlist window. All the options are there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Why do you want to convert? FLAC is a lossless compression, MP3 is not. If you care about quality then set the MP3 bit rate as high a possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Why do you want to convert? FLAC is a lossless compression, MP3 is not. If you care about quality then set the MP3 bit rate as high a possible Cos as stated....I want to put it on a cd for in the car....my player does not play flacs.....tried already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meand Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 (edited) By far the best, most simple and useful tool for this, and many other audio conversions, at least from what I have seen, is "dBpoweramp music converter". You have to buy it, but anything that is actually good you usually do. However, if you do a search on kickass torrents you may have some luck finding a free trial copy or something, not that I would know, just a guess Edited July 14, 2012 by meand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 You have to buy it, but anything that is actually good you usually do. Foobar is extremely good and requires no purchase. MediaMonkey is also good and free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meand Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 My notepad program on my laptop is good too, but i'd prefer to use word for more complex operations. Having said that, the foobar does appear to be up to par, but I have never used a program as beautiful as that dbpoweramp, can't say enough good things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeBKK Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 never tried to go from flac to mp3 (exept apple) why you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 that foobar thing.....loaded it again as could not copy the converted flac files to cd on the windows media player burner...so tried to convert again with foobar and crikey...no idea....right clicked on it but then god knows what or where to go. So reverted to Nemo to burn the cd and that worked ok....but seems with nemo cannot fit as many mp3's on it as when using windows media player. As an example...2 cd's I burnt in last 2 weeks....first one had 91 files on it and all copied onto the cd using windows...the total file size was almost exactly 700mb, the size of a cd. So trying to do the same tonight and put a pile of songs on the cd....the file size was only 250 onn kb and when written across from nemo to the cd...it filled it up ?? I have no idea how this shit works really.....just click and burn...click and burn.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsiam Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 why you do? Shit's n giggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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