Friday, June 22, 2012

FLAC to MP3 Windows Easy Way


FLAC or Free Lossless audio Codec is an advanced compressing Codec which provides high quality with compression (even better than Mp3, Mp3 is Lossy Flac is Lossless).

  • The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has adopted the FLAC format for the distribution of high quality audio over its Euroradio network.
  •  The Android operating system supports native FLAC playback since version 3.1.
  •  Sony Zylo Walkman plays FLAC, and
  • If you are a music junkie like me you will have some of the music lying around in High Quality FLAC


 but on the sadder side Windows Media Player does not support FLAC without 3rd party support and iTunes also does not do it. Many converters are available in the Market which either add something to Music or decrease the quality

Tools of trade

You will be needing LAME mp3 Encoder Which can be found at http://lame.sourceforge.net/
after download extract it using Win Rar or Win Zip and Compile.

or easily get it from http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Encoder_download.htm

Howto

Copy this one line
C:\Flac_Files_Folder>C:\lame.exe -V2 -r --noreplaygain -b 320 musikk1.flac musikk1.mp3

This Will create 320 kbps mp3 with no replay gain out of FLAC file

for Id3 Tags use the following 

    --tt <title>    audio/song title (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
    --ta <artist>   audio/song artist (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
    --tl <album>    audio/song album (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
    --ty <year>     audio/song year of issue (1 to 9999)
    --tc <comment>  user-defined text (max 30 chars for v1 tag, 28 for v1.1)
    --tn <track[/total]>   audio/song track number and (optionally) the total
                           number of tracks on the original recording. (track
                           and total each 1 to 255. just the track number
                           creates v1.1 tag, providing a total forces v2.0).
    --tg <genre>    audio/song genre (name or number in list)
    --ti <file>     audio/song albumArt (jpeg/png/gif file, 128KB max, v2.3)
    --tv <id=value> user-defined frame specified by id and value (v2.3 tag)


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