Have you ever spent the time obtaining an album or concert that you sought after, only to find out that the files are all in FLAC format? Now you want to convert the FLAC files to MP3. MP3 files are very popular and are supported by pretty much all media players. They are also much smaller in size, allowing more music to be stored on a computer or MP3 player.


The default MP3 encoding bitrate will be 128kbps. You can change the bitrate to 320 kbps which is the highest available for MP3 44.1khz stereo. It will give you the best quality possible from your FLAC files. However the higher the bitrate you encode the bigger the file size will be.

What is FLAC?
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, a leading compression technique that preserves original audio quality while reducing file size. The FLAC format reduces the original file size by roughly 30-60% with no loss of quality, hence FLAC is a lossless format.

What is MP3?
MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer 3, which revolutionized digital music. Derived from the audio sections of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video specifications, MP3 compresses CD-quality sound by a factor of roughly 10, while retaining most of the original fidelity. MP3 files are played on the computer via media player software, such as Apple's iTunes and Microsoft's Windows Media Player, as well as in countless iPods and other handheld players. While 128 Kbps (kilobits per second) is considered the norm for MP3 files, MP3s can be encoded to bit rates from 8Kbps to 320 Kbps. The higher the bit rate, the better the sound and the larger the file.