FLAC to MP3 Converter is an easy, efficient, fast yet free FLAC to MP3 Converter. This converter is totally free of charge for any private & non-commercial usage. It is the fastest FLAC to MP3 Converter available and fully optimized for the mainstream multi-core CPUs. Our website provides a free download of FLAC MP3 Converter 6.2.17 for Mac. This free software for Mac OS X was originally created by AnyMP4 Studio. This Mac download was checked by our antivirus and was rated as malware free. The application lies within Audio & Video Tools, more precisely Editors & Converters.
| Welcome to the fre:ac project |
| Sunday, 11 July 2010 14:00 | fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey's Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats. With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags. Features(click an entry to see details) - Converter for MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and other formats
fre:ac converts freely between all supported formats. No matter if you need WMA to MP3, MP3 to WAV, M4A to MP3, WAV to MP3 or any other conversion, fre:ac supports any combination of formats.
- Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/GNUdb title database support
The integrated CD ripper will convert your audio CDs to files on your hard disk. It supports all of the formats available for regular audio file conversion. fre:ac can query the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database to find artist and title information prior to ripping. No need to enter track names manually.
- Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
fre:ac can be installed on a USB stick or external drive so you can take it with you and use it on any computer. It will also store its configuration files on the portable drive. That way it will always start up with your custom settings.
- Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
The MP3, M4A/AAC, Opus and Speex encoders integrated with fre:ac make use of modern multi-core CPUs, so ripping and converting speeds get a real boost. You will save time and get the job done quickly.
- Full Unicode support for tags and file names
fre:ac provides full support for the Unicode character set. That way it can handle not only Latin scripts, but also Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Indian and others. If you like music from all over the world, you can tag your files in the original script.
- Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
fre:ac's user interface is designed to be intuitive so you will be able to use the basic features without any trouble. It still offers advanced options when you need them so you will be able to go beyond simple ripping and format conversion using fre:ac.
- Available for all major operating systems
fre:ac is a multi-platform application and available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Haiku. The Windows version is available stand-alone or from the Microsoft Store. The Linux version is availble in AppImage, Flatpak and Snap format.
- Multilingual user interface available in 43 languages
fre:ac comes with a multilingual user interface and is currently available in 43 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Cantonese, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, Romanian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Afrikaans, Basque, Esperanto, Galician, Catalan, Valencian and Corsican). It can be translated to other languages easily using the 'smooth Translator' utility that is included in the distribution.
- Completely free and open source without a catch
fre:ac is available for free without any adware or other foul things. However, the project relies on your support to be able to push the development further. If you like this software, please consider making a donation. Click on one of the icons in the donation section to the right to support the fre:ac project with a donation.
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| Monday, 28 June 2021 00:33 | fre:ac version 1.1.5 has been released on 27th June 2021. This update adds support for verifying audio CD rips using AccurateRip technology. This compares a checksum of the ripped audio against other users' results for the same CD. When a match is found in the AccurateRip database, this basically certifies a perfect rip. And in case of a mismatch, fre:ac displays a warning to let you know something may be wrong. Besides this major new feature, the 1.1.5 update comes with performance optimizations, further tagging improvements, updated codecs and a number of bug fixes: - Improvements
- Improved DSP processing performance by up to 70% (mainly on Windows)
- Added frequency bandwidth setting to FDK-AAC encoder configuration dialog
- Added an option to toggle logging of complete paths in log files
- Added options for specifying cover art files to freaccmd
- Added support for reading Shift_JIS encoded CD-Text
- Added support for writing album and track comments to cue sheets
- Added support for ID3v2 tags in RF64 files
- Added support for updating Vorbis Comment tags
- Added support for updating ID3v2 tags in RIFF and AIFF files
- Added support for updating LIST INFO tags in RIFF, RF64 and Wave64 files
- Added support for ensemble field in Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags
- Added support for movement field in ID3v2, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and MP4 tags
- Added support for additional URL fields in APEv2 tags
- Added a tag editor option to keep album artist even if identical to track artist
- Added media type field to tag editor
- Bug fixes
- Fixed hotspot for genre edit field utility menu not covering the whole width of the field
- Fixed occasional crashes when selecting codec subformat using the 'Start encoding with' menu
- Fixed chapter marks being offset by a few seconds when using DSP processing
- Fixed playback not working when using certain combinations of DSP processors
- Fixed incompatibility of FDK-AAC encoded HE and HEv2 AAC files with iTunes
- Fixed issue decoding FLAC files with unknown length
- Fixed glitches decoding transients in some Vorbis files
- Fixed possible crashes when decoding Opus files
- Fixed rare crashes in LAME encoder component
- Fixed strings read from ID3v2 tags being limited to 1024 characters
- Fixed crash when reading malformed CD-Text genre IDs
- Fixed failure ripping with negative read offset
- Fixed disc eject not working on macOS
- Fixed crash when closing fre:ac via dock command on macOS
- Fixed UI glitches and crashes on exit when running in a Wayland session
- Fixed popup menu and dropdown list closing behavior on non-Windows platforms
- Fixed issues with custom DPI settings on Xfce desktops
- Fixed drag & drop working unreliably on X11 based systems
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.5 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases. The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
| Continuous builds of fre:ac for macOS |
| Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:28 | Continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the macOS as well, completing the effort to make these automated builds available for all major desktop operating systems. These builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions. Continuous builds are currently provided as .dmg images for Intel Macs running macOS 10.9 or later. A variant optimized for Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11.0 will be added later. You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
| Continuous builds of fre:ac for Windows |
| Tuesday, 23 February 2021 02:59 | Thanks to GitHub Actions, continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the Windows platform. These automated builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions. The continuous builds are provided as .zip packages for the x86 (32 bit) and x86-64 (64 bit) architectures. You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
| Monday, 15 February 2021 01:25 | fre:ac version 1.1.4 has been released on 14th February 2021. This is a service focussing on minor improvements and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for HDCD decoding, improves tagging support and usability of the tag editor, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases: - Improvements
- Improved support for reading CD-Text
- Added an HDCD decoder DSP filter
- Added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor
- Added file type associations to macOS app, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files
- Added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog
- Improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30%
- Improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems
- Discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode
- Update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode
- Added support for Replay Gain values in MP4 and WMA metadata
- Do not override settings with default values when using freaccmd's --config option
- Bug fixes
- Fixed invalid length written to very long Opus and Speex files (longer than 12 ½ hours at 48 kHz)
- Fixed decoding of some very short Opus, Vorbis and Speex files
- Fixed written MP4 chapters being invisible to some applications when using Nero AAC
- Fixed hang/crash when opening WavPack, Musepack, TAK and OptimFROG files with chapters
- Fixed issues submitting CDDB information for new CDs (without existing entries)
- Fixed issues handling long path/file names on Windows
- Fixed output sample rate being limited to 192 kHz
- Fixed freaccmd randomly failing to process files in rare cases
- Fixed bad user interface colors on some Linux distributions
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.4 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases. The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
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I got a FLAC file from my friend but it appears I can't play it properly on my MP3 player. Can you recommend any audio converter that can convert FLAC to MP3 without deducting the music quality? I googled around but didn't find such a tool.
FLAC, as an open source audio codec, is for lossless compression of digital audio. Although it has better quality and smaller size, we'll always need to convert FLAC as it's not as popular as other formats such as MP3 that is supported by almost all audio players. Therefore, we need to look for a great FLAC converter to convert FLAC to MP3 or other formats with ease. Below is a ranked list of the top 5 best FLAC audio converter software of 2018 for Mac and Windows, including freeware and shareware, online solutions and desktop apps.
#1. ViWizard DRM Audio Converter (Mac & Windows)
ViWizard DRM Audio Converter (DRM Audio Converter for Mac) is one of the best FLAC converters thanks to its strong ability to convert not only FLAC audio to MP3, but also some other special audio files, such as DRM-protected Apple Music, iTunes M4P songs, Audible AA, AAX audiobooks to common MP3, AAC, WAV, etc. It allows you to set audio quality, including codec, audio channel, bit rate, sample rate, and others according to different requirements. Besides, it can keep the ID3 tags of the original files for you, such as title, album, cover, artist, and so forth.
Availability: $39.95 with free trial version provided
Input Formats: FLAC, M4R, MP3, MP2, MPA, WMA, AAC, AC3, MKA, OGG, AIFF, RA, RAM, WAV, APE, DRM-ed AA, AAX, M4P, M4A, M4B
Output Formats: MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, M4B, FLAC
Flac Converter For Windows
Supported OS: Mac OSX 10.8 or later & Windows XP or later
- All-in-one audio converter for DRM and non-DRM audios
- Keep 100% original quality and ID3 tags
- Only a few output formats supported
#2. Freemake Audio Converter (Windows)
If you are looking for a free FLAC converter, then you should have a test with Freemake Audio Converter. This freeware offers you with multiple options for converting all popular audios to whatever format you desire. In addition, it enables you to merge multiple files into one larger audio and lets you adjust the output quality before converting the files. What's more, it can also be used to extract audio tracks from video files. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of Freemake Audio Converter is that it only supports audio files that are shorter than three minutes. You are required to buy Infinite Pack if you need to convert audio files that are longer.
Availability: Free
Input Formats: AAC, AMR, AC3, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA and more
Output Formats: AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA
Supported OS: Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, Vista
- Free
- Convert 50+ audio formats
- Support Windows OS only
- Convert audios shorter than three minutes only
#3. Zamzar (Online Converter)
If you prefer online tools more than the desktop apps, Zamzar could be a great option to convert the FLAC audios for you. Best of all, it's free. To convert the audios, you don't need to install the software on your computer. All you have to do is visit the official site and import the FLAC file, select the output format, enter your email address, and convert. You can also enter the link of an online audio file to Zamzar to convert.
Availability: Free to access on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Input Formats: 3GA, AAC, AC3, AIFC, AIFF, AMR, APE, CAF, FLAC, M4A, M4P, M4R, MIDI, MP3, OGA, OGG, RA, RAM, WAV, and WMA
Output Formats: AAC, AC3, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, and WMA
- Free
- No need to install software on computer
- 50MB file limit
- Not as safe as desktop app
#4. MediaHuman Audio Converter (Mac & Windows)
MediaHuman Audio Converter is a freeware app for both Mac OS X and Windows. It helps you to convert your music files absolutely free to WMA, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF, Apple Lossless format and bunch of others. Thanks to its simple and easy-to-use interface, all you do is drag and drop the audio files directly into the program, choose an output format, and then start the conversion.
Availability: Free
Input Formats: FLAC, AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFF, ALAW, AMR, APE, AU, CAF, DSF, DTS, M4A, M4B, M4R, MP2, MP3, MPC, OGG, OPUS, RA, SHN, TTA, WAV, WMA, and WV
Output Formats: AAC, AC3, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, M4R, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA
Supported OS: Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, Vista & Mac 10.13 or lower
- Free and very easy to use
Free Flac To Mp3 Converter Mac
- Not recommended for advanced conversion
#5. FileZigZag (Online Audio Converter)
FileZigZag is another free online audio converter that can help you convert FLAC audio to MP3 and other formats for free. Navigate to the site, upload the audio file or URL, set the output format and then convert. But unlike Zamzar, it can only convert one file each time. Its advantage over Zamzar is it supports more input and output formats and the source file is limited to 180 MB.
Availability: Free to access on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Input Formats: 3GA, AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, AMR, AU, CAF, FLAC, M4A, M4R, M4P, MID, MIDI, MMF, MP2, MP3, MPGA, OGA, OGG, OMA, OPUS, QCP, RA, RAM, WAV, and WMA
Output Formats: AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MP3, MMF, OPUS, OGG, RA, WAV, and WMA
- Free
- No need to install software on computer
- No batch conversion
- Not as safe as desktop app
Flac To Mp3 App
Conclusion
As you can see, all the above mentioned FLAC converters are great choices to accomplish your FLAC to MP3 conversion task. It all depends on you to choose the one you like. To sum up, if you don't mind the cost, ViWizard DRM Audio Converter should be the best option as it works with both DRM and DRM-free audios. If you desire free converter software, Freemake and MediaHuman are great tools to go for. But if you don't like to install any software on your computer, the online audio converter like Zamzar or FileZigZag is the best option.
Nick Orin is a review writer, software geek and Mac OS enthusiast. He spends all his free time in searching useful software and gadgets to share with others.