[Valerylee]

i always use flvto.com it is free and working great!

 

[ladaphnego]

All in all, there is a reason why people want to convert FLAC to MP3: the free and open source royalty-free nature of FLAC format lets it well-supported by many software applications. However, compared to MP3, the fly in the ointment is that FLAC still has limitation in portable audio devices and dedicated audio systems. People can't play FLAC files on iTunes, iPhone, iPod, iPad, MP3 Players, Android, BlackBerry and more popular devices and players.
 
A widely used solution to convert FLAC to MP3 is turn to Faasoft FLAC to MP3 Converter. Hope it is what you are looking for.

 

[goodvibes]

Actually, all but Apple play FLAC unless quite old and even Apple units that use apps can do it. Reason to convert is size. Faasoft is also not free. If I'm paying, I'm getting DBpoweramp. 

 

[AntoineJerry]

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is one of the most popular good at ripping lossless FLAC audios to MP3 for enjoying. Have a try.

 

[crashnburn]

FLAC to MP3 - Best FREE and PAID converters 2016? 

 

[fp581]

Flax to mp3? If you have to I use foobar2000 for anything

 

[AnthonyInTX]

I've been using MediaHuman and it's worked really well for me. Simple drag-and-drop function with pretty much all formats supported. It's free.

 

[crashnburn]

I do not wish to keep Flac and Mp3 copies on Disk. I can use Flac via MusicBee via PC etc, but lets say I want small MP3s on iOS or other devices e.g. Automotive/ Portables
In such scenarios mp3's take less space and are more universally playable. 
 
So, an on the fly converter that does this fast & free / inexpensive would be great. 
 
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  FLAC to MP3 - Best FREE and PAID converters 2016? 

Flax to mp3? If you have to I use foobar2000 for anything

  I've been using MediaHuman and it's worked really well for me. Simple drag-and-drop function with pretty much all formats supported. It's free.

 

[musicday]

Foobar2000 and is free.

 

[Rado2]

Can't believe nobody mentioned FFmpeg. A damn big pile of software out there uses that lib to play/encode/decode. It's free and you can take it pre-compiled for many platforms. It has command line interface too (CLI).
 
All: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
Windows: https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
Linux: http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
 
Or if you don't/can't use CLI use anything based around FFmpeg like VLC for example.

 

[melody156]

format factory?!!

 

[cddc]

You're welcome.

It's not a bad idea to look for free open source software first. There are some tasks where the best tool is both proprietary and also has to be paid for, but for audio (and video) encoding, decoding, tagging, transcoding and similar then most of the best options are freely available while most shareware apps are fairly horrible and quite a number are nothing more than scams that illegally repackage free software and trick people into paying for something that the original authors offer at no charge.

http://www.rarewares.org has a good collection of free audio essentials.

Cool, thanks a lot for sharing the link.

Can I ask a question for you?

I was able to convert flac to mp3 via foobar (using lame.exe as encoder) in the past. And I remember that I was able to convert flac to VBR mp3 (which is my fav portable format), but somehow today I found that I could't convert flac to VBR mp3 any more. I can only convert flac to CBR mp3 now. But I really don't like CBR mp3, coz its size is much larger than VBR mp3. So how can I do flac to VBR mp3 conversion again?

 

[joheneslly]

foobar.

I used it to do the job easily.