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FLAC conversion


Question Posted Saturday April 3 2010, 6:33 pm

What's a good, free program to convert FLAC files to mp3s that won't screw up my computer or give me viruses?

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theymos answered Friday April 9 2010, 3:36 am:
The best way is to use the standard command-line tools directly. Most graphical converters just deal with LAME and flac for you.

Decode the FLAC with the official tool:
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Command-line:
flac -d -o out.wav input.flac

Then encode the WAV into MP3 with LAME:
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There are many command-line options, but this will give a good mix of size and quality:
lame -V2 --vbr-new input.wav out.mp3

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