Recommended FLAC converter? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nimous@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use FRE:AC https://www.freac.org/downloads-mainmenu-33

It can do bulk conversions with a recursive directory search and works in most OSes

I had the exact same use case as you, 1TB of FLACs onto a 256gb phone. Because you prefer minimal quality loss, Opus is the format for you, not MP3. You can maintain transparency-level quality with 128kbps, Opus is roughly equivalent in quality to a mp3 twice its size. AAC and Vorbis are also preferable to MP3 in this aspect, but inferior to Opus. At this point, mp3s are only useful for devices that can't decode any better codec.

Then i do a search-replace for *.flac -> *.opus on the playlists. I use PowerAmp on android to play the tunes, can recommend.

[-] Nimous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

PowerAmp has a good UI but lacks some features and usage ease so I highly recommend Musicolet.

[-] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I just tried it. I can't bulk import external playlists, so I'm not using it. I keep my playlists in with the music directories so I have to scroll past 3,000 artists to get to any of them in musicolet.

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