I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I decided to convert my flac files into mp3 and I prefer minimum amount of quality loss; what is the best software for it?
- Doesn’t matter if conversion take some time if the quality would be decent.
Besides ffmpeg I would also recommend audio converter for the ones who want an Android app with a GUI, I believe it uses FFmpeg under the hood
I personally use AIMP. It has a built in converter it worked well for me
Get a phone with microsd port. Then you can have up to 1tb of lossless music
If you were in my country you would know something like that means I have to sell my liver to get it.
If you’re using Windows then Foobar 2000 is great. I use it for manually managing and tidying my collection in addition to converting pretty much any format to any other format.
That being said, you can install it as a snap in Linux as well if that’s your poison.
I dunno, I normally use my bash script + ffmpeg to convert batch flacs to mp3s
#!/bin/bash
cd "${1}"
for subdir in *; do
cd "${subdir}"
for input in *.flac; do
echo ${input%.*}
ffmpeg -i "${input}" -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${input%.*}.mp3" && rm "${input}"
done
cd ..
done
Then i’d just run my script.sh [directory that contains flac]
you might want to remove && rm "${input}" if you don’t want it to delete your flac files automatically.
