Tool 19 · FLAC to MP3 · Free · No signup
FLAC to MP3.
FLAC keeps every bit of the recording and takes the space to do it. A 320 kbps MP3 is a third of the size or less and plays in every car and app. Drop a track or the whole album; each MP3 keeps its tags and artwork. Converted on your own machine.
01 Files
MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG and Opus, or a video for its sound, as many as you like. The files are read on your device and never upload.
02 Convert to
192 kbps is transparent for most music; 320 if it is going back into an editor; 128 is plenty for speech. Title, artist, album and cover are carried over. Each file downloads as it finishes.
Converted, then a video
A song on its way to YouTube, TikTok or Reels still needs a picture there. Above, a frame from our music visualizer, which turns the converted file into a video that moves with it. For a cover held still with the sound, use MP3 to MP4; for a voice recording, the waveform video maker.
How to convert FLAC to MP3
FLAC is the lossless format of Bandcamp downloads, CD rips and hi-res stores. It is the right thing to keep and the wrong thing for a phone short on space, a car stereo, or the Music app on a Mac, which does not import it. Converting gives you a copy that plays everywhere, with the album names and the cover carried over, and leaves the FLAC as your archive.
- Drop the FLAC files anywhere on the page, or click to choose them, one or a whole folder. Each shows its format, sample rate and length at once. No file to hand? Try the sample.
- Keep MP3 and pick the bitrate: 320 kbps to keep as much as MP3 can, 192 for a phone where space matters.
- Press Convert. The files go one after another, each with its own progress line, and each MP3 downloads under the original name as soon as it is done.
Related
- Audio converterEvery format in, MP3, WAV or M4A out, and what each one does.
- WAV to MP3The same converter for a WAV file.
- M4A to MP3The same converter for a M4A file.
- OGG to MP3The same converter for a OGG file.
- Opus to MP3The same converter for a OPUS file.
- AAC to MP3The same converter for a AAC file.
- FLAC to WAVThe same file as WAV instead.
- MP3 to MP4The converted file with a cover, as a 1080p video.
- MP3 tag editorFix the title, artist or cover in the MP3.
- Audio trimmerOnly need part of it? Cut it down first.
Questions
Which bitrate for a FLAC?+
320 kbps if the sound is why you had FLAC: it is the highest MP3 goes. 192 kbps for a phone, where it saves a third of the space and most music still sounds the same. A 24-bit or 96 kHz FLAC is resampled to 48 kHz for the MP3, the format's top rate; 44.1 and 48 kHz files keep theirs.
Are the tags and the cover kept?+
Yes, tested: the title, artist and album from the FLAC's Vorbis comments and the embedded picture are written into the MP3's ID3 tag, so the album still looks like an album in the car or on the phone.
Can I convert a whole album at once?+
Yes. Drop all the tracks together: they convert one after another, each downloads as it finishes, and the rows keep the order you dropped them in. Chrome asks once whether the page may download several files; allow it.
What happens to the FLAC?+
Nothing. It is read, not changed, and it stays your lossless master; the MP3 is a lossy copy for playing. If you need a lossless file that more programs open, FLAC to WAV is the same tool with WAV picked, and it is sample for sample identical to the FLAC.
Which browsers decode FLAC?+
Chrome and Edge, tested here, at 16 and 24 bits up to 96 kHz. Firefox and Safari decode FLAC too.
Is my audio uploaded?+
No. Each file is decoded and encoded in your browser, a piece at a time, and the download is made there. Nothing leaves your machine, nothing is watermarked, and there is no queue. The page only counts that a file was converted, with the formats, never a name or the audio.
How fast is it?+
Measured in Chrome on a laptop with a two minute song: WAV to a 192 kbps MP3 in about two and a half seconds, MP3 to WAV in under two. A phone is slower. Files go one at a time, so a batch takes the sum of its files.
Which encoder makes the MP3?+
LAME, the open-source MP3 encoder most audio software uses, compiled to run in the browser. The MP3 is constant bitrate at the source's sample rate (48 kHz for anything above), with an ID3v2 tag.