How can I convert my AAC and MP3 audio files to FLAC?
dbpoweramp can convert from aac and mp3 to FLAC or ogg, whichever you would prefer. It will also convert as many files as you can shove in a folder. It is fairly simple to use and the codecs are all available off the front page. You may have to pay for the mp3 codec as it isn’t free to them. I’m not sure if you will need that to convert from mp3 though.
MP3 Book Helper supports FLAC tags. IIRC, they’re the same type of tags as Ogg Vorbis. If you want the highest quality rips from your own CDs, be sure to check out the UberStandard. which is a pretty good guide. It assumes you’re compressing to EAC but is easily adaptable to FLAC (in short: use User Defined Encoder in EAC, select FLAC.EXE as the encoder, use command line “–best %d %s”). Oh yeah, except EAC is a Windows app. I’ve heard it runs under Wine. Converting MP3 files to FLAC: although you won’t lose any quality, it’s a pretty silly move — your files will be several times larger. Also, it’d then be difficult to tell which FLACs came from lossy sources and which ones didn’t. You’re probably better off just replacing them altogether with lossless rips. The nice thing about lossless is that it doesn’t matter which format they’re in; you can always convert to your preferred for
I’ll admit…I have no idea of the answer. But I did a yahoo search. Link to working FLAC component for itunes and Applescript to convert AAC to FLAC and preserve metadata plus Also here How I found these: Yahoo search.
