Audio
Turn your FLAC files into MP3 in seconds. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.
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It weighs several times more than an MP3 and some simple devices do not play it. As MP3 any device plays it, from your phone to the car stereo.
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.
MP3 compresses sound lossily, removing what the ear barely notices, so a song takes just a few megabytes.
Strengths: Any phone, car, speaker, player or program plays it, however old.
Limits: It loses some quality with each re-encode and, at the same size, sounds worse than AAC or Opus.
No. The FLAC to MP3 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.
A little, because MP3 is lossy; at 192 kbps or more the difference is hard to hear.
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 FLAC files as you like: several are converted at the same time, depending on your processor cores, and when they finish you can download each MP3 or all of them in a ZIP.