I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I decided to convert my flac files into mp3 and I prefer minimum amount of quality loss; what is the best software for it?
Doesn't matter if conversion take some time if the quality would be decent.
It can do bulk conversions with a recursive directory search and works in most OSes
I had the exact same use case as you, 1TB of FLACs onto a 256gb phone. Because you prefer minimal quality loss, Opus is the format for you, not MP3. You can maintain transparency-level quality with 128kbps, Opus is roughly equivalent in quality to a mp3 twice its size. AAC and Vorbis are also preferable to MP3 in this aspect, but inferior to Opus. At this point, mp3s are only useful for devices that can't decode any better codec.
Then i do a search-replace for *.flac -> *.opus on the playlists. I use PowerAmp on android to play the tunes, can recommend.
I just tried it. I can't bulk import external playlists, so I'm not using it. I keep my playlists in with the music directories so I have to scroll past 3,000 artists to get to any of them in musicolet.
I've been using Poweramp since version 1.5 on my HTC Hero (Android 1.5!). I'm just curious as to why Musicolet is better. I've already noticed their statement about no internet access, so that's a start.
Edit: Musicolet is louder on my Bluetooth headphones than Poweramp is, that makes 2 points. 😁
Everyone is recommending ffmpeg. So am I, but with Axiom UI, since everyone is not used to working in terminal.
You can convert entire folders just as well like you could with ffmpeg normally.
I am used to command line stuff, but I still prefer this for simple conversions out of convenience.
https://axiomui.github.io/
I dunno, I normally use my bash script + ffmpeg to convert batch flacs to mp3s
#!/bin/bash
cd "${1}"
for subdir in *; do
cd "${subdir}"
for input in *.flac; do
echo ${input%.*}
ffmpeg -i "${input}" -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${input%.*}.mp3" && rm "${input}"
done
cd ..
done
Then i'd just run my script.sh [directory that contains flac]
you might want to remove && rm "${input}" if you don't want it to delete your flac files automatically.
I use FFmpeg Batch Audio Video converter, it's just a GUI FFmpeg. I use it to convert FLAC to MP3 when I was going on a trip and only had a CD Player and I use it to convert 7.1 Audio down to AC3 5.1 to fit my sound system. It has a MP3 preset but I had to add one for the 5.1 conversion.
I used to use musicbee for this. Good app for organising your music on your desktop and you can configure it to convert audio format when syncing to your phone. It's been a while since I used it, but it did the job nicely
If you're using Windows then Foobar 2000 is great.
I use it for manually managing and tidying my collection in addition to converting pretty much any format to any other format.
That being said, you can install it as a snap in Linux as well if that's your poison.