[rubber_ducky]

my dap doesn't support flac. what's the best program to convert them to mp3 and how to do it right? thanks!

 

[Butti]

Any program that uses lame for compression should do the job.

I use Foobar most of the time.

 

[monolith]

dbpoweramp is a pretty great all-round file format conversion machine.

 

[slwiser]

x2

 

[warrior05]

Also a big fan of dbPoweramp. Keep in mind that you do have to pay to convert to MP3 but for how much this gem does it is more than worth the $18.

 

[slwiser]

If you have mulit-core computer it will use all your cores at the same time and the speed increase is real nice. So paying a little for that performance is acceptable to me.

 

[Punnisher]

I rip to FLAC with EAC and batch convert with Media Monkey. Sounds great to me.

 

[GimliLongBow]

x3 on the foobar2000. It is the fastest MP3 converter I have messed with. dbPowerAmp is good as well.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

I use Lame + audacity.

 

[DayoftheGreek]

I would just use FLAC frontend (downloadable from the FLAC website) to convert them back into wav, the use LAME + Exact Audio Copy to compress them to MP3.

Thats just me though.

 

[Richdel]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Punnisher /img/forum/go_quote.gif I rip to FLAC with EAC and batch convert with Media Monkey. Sounds great to me.

X2, works great for me.

 

[otprof]

And for OS X: Max.

 

[vDrag0n]

use foobar if you use foobar to play your music on pc. Use dbpoweramp for batch conversion, and media monkey, for conversion on the fly to your dap...

 

[tjumper78]

find and download lame 3.97 or similar version, find and download foobar2000.
open flac files in foobar2000, highlight them, right click and choose "convert to", choose mp3, change mp3 quality to v0(or any bitrate of your taste), click ok. foobar2000 will ask you where the lame.exe is located, browse and show where it is saved. then foobar2k will ask where to save the output files (mp3s), choose your output folder. voila~

 

[sigsegv0x0B]

the best converter is of course bash

A simple script and some time later you're done!