How do you convert .flac files to .mp3?

Answer 1

dBpowerAMP only provides MP3 encoding/ripping on a trial basis (not to say that you shouldn't consider that route but unless you want to pay for it beyond the trial expiration, you may want to consider a more permanent and free alternative).

Your best bet would be to download the FLAC frontend -

http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm

Read how to set it up properly (download and place the latest build of FLAC into the same folder as the frontend) and then drag the FLAC files you want into the frontend and hit "Decode".

Then, take your resulting WAVE files and drop them into the ALL2LAME frontend -

http://members.home.nl/w.speek/all2lame.htm

Again, making sure to read the setup (downloading the latest build of LAME that isn't an alpha version) and hit "Encode" and you should have resulting MP3 files.

A recommendation of MP3 quality would be Alt. Preset Standard (in particular, just copy and paste this into the switch line of the frontend: -V 2 --vbr-new --noreplaygain ) , which will give you a nice set of variable bit rate sound files at relatively small filesizes.

When you do generational encoding from the WAVE formats you are getting a near-exact copy, minus the inherent lossy quality of MP3 (FLAC being lossless means that its exactly like it should sound on the original CD - just compressed from the WAVE in order to cut down on space since WAVE files are huge raw formats).

Should you encounter more problems or want to read up on things further, feel free to take a look around the Hydrogen Audio forums (register if you want, ask questions in the appropriate places, use their search to turn up older discussions, etc.) -

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php

Hope that is of some help.

Answer 2

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dbpoweramp
- dl with its codec too, quite small size really

free N ezy if U dont think so then consider urselft 2 lazy

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