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App to convert FLAC to mp3
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XLD (X Lossless Decoder) will also do this. The interface is a tad unusual, but it works very well.
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You asked for a simple app. MediaHuman is simpler than XLD.
http://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/
I use Smart Converter Pro found in the app store. There's also a "Lite" version that's free. I've just converted about 100 FLAC files and the only thing I needed to do was set the output destination, drag & drop the files, and bingo, bango, bongo - done! Couldn't have been easier.
Thanks, this is what I ended up using.
By the way, I used MediaHuman to convert from FLAC to ALAC but it looks like the results aren't identical, though I might be wrong and under some form of placebo effect. Is this conversion supposed to produce identical results as the original?
On a different note, now I need to convert some .shn files and MediaHuman doesn't seem to be able to hand that. Ideas?
Unless there is a bug in the encoder FLAC to ALAC should be identical. It's not impossible because they had a bug a couple of years ago but they released an update pretty fast. There hasn't been an update in a while which suggests everything is kosher. I would say it's probably placebo, but if you have a doubt then drop their support a line to see what they say.
EDIT: See the comments section here http://www.mediahuman.com/howto/convert-flac-to-alac.html and double check you're setting the correct bit rate.
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Just took a look at this and downloaded it. It looks like a pretty good tool. Will be trying it out. They have other interesting tools as well. Thanks for the lead!!
Exactly. Also it would be great if Apple sold music in FLAC, ALAC and even uncompressed. Would be so great to have the option.
all2mp3 seems a adware infested software, considering all that junk it tries to install as well.
Is there a particular reason you want .mp3 and not like .aac? mp3 is one of the worst audio compressions you can use in terms of maintaining high audio quality.
No particular reason. Actually I use .aac very often too on my library.
To be honest though, a well-encoded mp3 at 320 kbps has nothing to envy.