[Cyrilix]

What is the free standard for MP3 to WAV converters? I'm having a little trouble with slow MP3 seeks with cue files, so I'm looking to convert all my MP3 to WAV, then WAV to FLAC. I already have FLAC frontend, but it won't take MP3 files, so I need to convert them to WAV first.

Thanks.

 

[blessingx]

Try DBPowerAmp.
Keep in mind WAV doesn't retain tags so you may want to convert MP3 to FLAC (which always needs a uncompressed step) all within DBPowerAmp.

 

[Cyrilix]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessingx /img/forum/go_quote.gif Try DBPowerAmp. Keep in mind WAV doesn't retain tags so you may want to convert MP3 to FLAC (which always needs a uncompressed step) all within DBPowerAmp.

Can DBPowerAmp do WAV->FLAC as well as the FLAC Frontend though?

 

[musicmind]

yes, if you have the FLAC codec, you can do coversions to and from FLAC with dBPowerAMP.

 

[Cyrilix]

I tried it myself, and so far it seems to work well, although it does not support dual core encoding without the reference version, which is a trial (it's unfortunate as half of the processing power is wasted).

I thought it was use something of a slowly updated codec, so something like FLAC 1.12 instead of the latest 1.14, but I'm glad it gets updated often.

 

[Joshatdot]

foobar2000

 

[justin2net]

well if it begins in mp3, there really isnt a point in transcoding to flac, but anyways... foobar or dbpoweramp can transcode with tags intact. or you can save the tags with a program like mp3tag or tag&rename and then re-import them into the flac when your done.

 

[krmathis]

 

[werdwerdus]

foobar2000 converter retains tag info and is multi threaded. well it's not multi threaded really, it just runs multiple instances of the encoder at the same time.