Convert FLAC to MP3
Turn lossless FLAC albums into MP3s that fit on a phone or in a car.
Drop a file to start
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
FLAC is a lossless archive: every sample of the original, stored at about half the size of a WAV. It is the right format to own music in and the wrong one to carry around, because it is three to five times the size of an MP3 and plenty of players still will not open it.
Converting from FLAC is the good case for lossy encoding. The source is the full original rather than something already compressed, so there is only ever one lossy pass, and one pass at high quality is where MP3 sounds closest to the record. Anyone converting an album for a phone or a car should stay at high.
The tags travel with it: title, artist and album are carried across, so a converted album still sorts correctly rather than turning into a folder of untitled tracks. Drop in a whole album and the files convert one after another on your own machine, with nothing uploaded.
Step by step
- 1Drop in your FLAC files.
- 2Pick a quality — high is the right answer for music.
- 3Press Convert, then download.
Questions
Am I losing quality?
Yes, by definition — MP3 is lossy and FLAC is not. Keep the FLACs as your masters; at high quality the MP3 is very hard to tell apart on ordinary equipment.
What quality should I use for music?
High. Medium is fine for speech and podcasts, but music is where the difference starts to show.
Do the track names survive?
Yes. Title, artist and album tags are copied to the MP3, so an album still sorts properly.