Convert FLAC to MP3

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Converting FLAC to MP3 is free: drop your FLAC above, hit convert, and download the MP3. Files delete themselves within an hour.

Converting FLAC to MP3 trades perfection for portability: your FLAC keeps every sample it was born with, while MP3 is built for playing on anything with a speaker, from new phones to twenty-year-old car stereos. At a sensible bitrate the difference is genuinely hard to hear, but it's a one-way door: hold on to the FLAC original if it's precious, because no MP3 can hand those samples back.

FYI

One-way door: MP3 is lossy, so this conversion throws data away to get small. Keep the FLAC original if you might ever need full quality again.

Why flip FLAC to MP3

FLAC is the audiophile's handshake: CD-perfect sound at roughly half the shelf space. It was born in 2001, Josh Coalson; now kept by the open Xiph.Org Foundation, and its real weak spot is fitting in pockets: lossless is still large: and charming Apple's own apps.

MP3 is the format that taught music to travel: small, scrappy, and welcome absolutely everywhere. MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. Perceptual coding: it throws away the parts of the signal your ear is least likely to miss. That makes it the right destination when what you need is playing on anything with a speaker, from new phones to twenty-year-old car stereos.

How to convert FLAC to MP3

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Drop your FLAC file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
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Check the output format: MP3 is already selected for you.
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Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new MP3.

FLAC vs MP3, side by side

	FLAC	MP3
Born	2001, Josh Coalson; now kept by the open Xiph.Org Foundation	1993, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Type	audio · lossless	audio · lossy
Best for	archiving music with zero quality loss and a genuine size saving	playing on anything with a speaker, from new phones to twenty-year-old car stereos
Weak spot	fitting in pockets: lossless is still large: and charming Apple's own apps	holding fine detail at low bitrates: it stays small by quietly discarding sound
Typical size	around 5 MB per minute: half of WAV, five times an MP3	about 1 MB per minute at 128 kbps: roughly a tenth of CD audio
Plays on	Hi-fi gear, Android, VLC, most desktop players; iTunes and Apple Music look away.	Everything. Phones, browsers, cars, smart speakers, ancient iPods.

Questions people ask

Will converting FLAC to MP3 lose quality?

A little, by design: MP3 is a lossy format. At 192 kbps or above most people can't tell the difference, but the discarded data can't be recovered later.

Will the MP3 file be bigger or smaller than my FLAC?

Dramatically smaller. FLAC runs around 5 MB per minute: half of WAV, five times an MP3; MP3 comes in at about 1 MB per minute at 128 kbps: roughly a tenth of CD audio.

Where will the MP3 file play?

Everything. Phones, browsers, cars, smart speakers, ancient iPods. That's the usual reason people leave FLAC behind: MP3 simply opens in more of the places that matter.

How long does FLAC to MP3 conversion take?

Seconds for most files: audio is light work. A long recording might take a minute; your file auto-deletes from our servers within an hour either way.

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