Audio
Turn your AAC files into FLAC in seconds. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.
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Or paste them with Ctrl+V. They never leave your device.
Without a container it holds no artwork or tags, and some programs prefer M4A. As FLAC it is stored losslessly and much smaller than a WAV.
AAC is the lossy audio codec that replaced MP3; this file is “raw” AAC, without a container (ADTS).
Strengths: At the same size it sounds better than an MP3 and almost every device understands it.
Limits: Without a container it holds no artwork or tags, and some programs prefer M4A.
FLAC compresses audio without losing anything: it plays back exactly like the original.
Strengths: Ideal for archiving music at CD quality or better in about half the size of a WAV.
Limits: It weighs several times more than an MP3 and some simple devices do not play it.
No. The AAC to FLAC conversion runs entirely in your browser, with code downloaded from this site and executed on your device. You can check it in the Network tab of the developer tools or by going offline after the page loads.
No: FLAC stores audio losslessly (any loss already in the AAC cannot be recovered).
Up to 2 GB on desktop and 500 MB on mobile (less on low-memory devices), and up to 12 hours of audio on desktop. If it is over, you are told before it starts.
Yes. Drop as many AAC files as you like: several are converted at the same time, depending on your processor cores, and when they finish you can download each FLAC or all of them in a ZIP.