So let's go ahead now and convert our FLAC audio to the more familiar and smaller MP3 lossy compression format. You can play the file now if you wish as FLAC is natively supported by Foobar 2000. It will display the file in its playlist like seen above. Open FLAC files in Foobar 2000 To open FLAC files in Foobar 2000, either use the Open Files option in the file menu or simply drag and drop FLAC music files onto the program itself while it is running. Now open the newly created LAME folder and hold CTRL + V together to paste the files into the new folder. Copy the selected files by pressing CTRL + C together. ![]() If using ZIP folders (opened ZIP file in Windows XP/Vista) then select all the files with your mouse (or select one of them and then press CTRL + A together). WinRAR will now extract all the files as seen above. ![]() If using WinRAR, simply select all the files in the ZIP file when you open it (hold CTRL + A to select all files) and drag then across into the folder with your mouse (left click and hold your finger down, move the files on top of the new LAME folder and release). These must be placed into a folder on your Hard Drive. The ZIP file contains several files and no folders. If you have Windows XP or newer, then you can open the download in a folder which is also fine. You must also install the LAME MP3 encoder software onto the computer, which is not so straight forward but still easy. The installation should be very quick and you will have the option to run Foobar 2000 for the first time at the end of the process. The steps involved are self explanatory and don't need to be explained in detail here. Install Foobar 2000 and Lame MP3 Run the Foobar 2000 installation. Converting from FLAC to MP3 should not take too long and won't take up too much hard drive space. Foobar 2000 -> A popular audio player with a wide range of support for playing audio files and converting them to other formats. LAME MP3 Encoder -> You need this software for the conversion to MP3. Introduction & Requirements WinRAR -> WinRAR is required to extract LAME MP3 Encoder, a download vital to the process (other ZIP extraction software is fine too). FLAC is lossless, which means it loses no audio information from it's original source, it is just compressed and can be returned to its original state at any time. The drawbacks also exist too MP3 is a lossy format. ![]() The benefits to this are obvious, the files are smaller and have better support among software and hardware players (also use less power when playing on supporting MP3 players). This article shows how to turn Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files into MP3 files.
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