Topic: Flac -> MP3?

[SmokinJoe]

for command line geeks...
flac -d -c somefile.flac | lame -h -b 320  - somefile.mp3

I started off by stealing this snippet from an archive.org derivation log file...
/usr/bin/flac --silent -d -c /tmp/derive/brew2008-09-26.lsd2-sbd-mix.flac16f/brew2008-09-26_remix_d2t05.flac | /usr/bin/lame --quiet --disptime 10 -b64 --resample 22.05 --ta "The Brew"  --tt "Faces jam"  --tn "17"  --tl "2008-09-26 - Paradise Rock Club"  - /tmp/derive-brew2008-09-26.lsd2-sbd-mix.flac16f-MP3/tmp.mp3

[Jamos]

surprised that I'm the only one here using xACT to do this on my mac.

xACT uses LAME, and I usually set it to the highest VBR setting...which ends up being around 256k most of the time.

So far, I've dropped about 750 gigs of FLAC & SHN files onto xACT (usually about 30 or 40gigs at a time), and it's produced every file without a hitch...
Highly recommended.

[rjp]

i use foobar2000 to convert my 16bit flac files to mp3 for use @ the gym. it's extremely easy: load all the files into foobar, highlight them all, right click and select "convert."

I've found that it works for 24-bit FLACs as well. It seems that MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files don't have a specific bit depth - foobar2000 doesn't display a bit depth for either file type, and when I sort my library by sampling rate and bit depth, the lossy files come out with a "?" for the bit depth.

[todd e]

i use dbpoweramp - LAME encoding

I don't recall details (they can be found here) but you must always do 16bit > mp3 for some reason 24bit >mp3 doesn't encode right

QFT - at least the LAME encoding so you can improve the settings.

[F.O.Bean]

I use Xilisoft to do FLAC>MP3 encoding!

[Ed.]

I use dbpoweramp to go from flac>mp3 with LAME.

I use this guide when I rip cds...and use the v0 setting.
http://www2.firehose.us:81/~jiggafellz/eac/index.html

[pmonk66]

I use foobar as well to convert lossless to lossy for ipod purposes!