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Bro, you can use a free software like freac to convert your WAV file into any format you want.
Please read this excellent article on music download formats: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
I can vouch for that. All of the FLAC files that I uploaded to GMP came out sounding rather flat, despite the fact they were converted to the max CBR of 320kbps. My guess is that Google's transcoding scheme favors speed over quality and fidelity. I started personally transcoding my own FLAC collection, using LAME 3.100 set to -V 0 for max VBR. The difference is noticeable, especially on YTM (based on informal ABX testing). If you're seeking the highest quality sound/fidelity, I would recommend transcoding your FLAC files yourself to MP3, tagging those MP3s, and then uploading those files. I think the results are worth it.
My FLAC -> MP3 workflow is as follows (all using free software, Windows 10):
- Save all FLAC files to archive drive.
- Use fre:ac to transcode from FLAC to MP3 (using LAME MP3 Encoder v3.100)
- Use TagScanner and MusicBrainz to properly tag resulting files
- Upload and enjoy
One thing I noted about this with YouTube Music is that the embedded cover art needs to be of a certain size. I was starting to get a lot of uploaded albums without cover art and then realized my images were too large/high resolution. I set TagScanner to reduce the art size to 600x600, and every upload has been smooth since.
Feel free to msg me if you need any help with the above. Or, if you want me to go into further details about my process and the app settings, just let me know.
If you want to create an audio-cd you should probably convert the files to the WAV format. If you just want to store a lot of mp3's on a cd-rom they may not be possible to play on all cd players.
free:ac should be able to do any of the conversions. Or Audacity.
I don't use any audio conversion sites. Seems like extra overhead to me but I like having control over my software.
I use fre:ac It's free open source and works on Windows, Linux and OSX. Can convert from/to compressed or lossless and even rip CDs.
re:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
https://www.freac.org - this is completely free, although UI could be a bit better imo.
I also highly recommend xrecode ($15 USD for a license) but it a very useful tool, very much worth the price.
Music has never supported FLAC. But you can convert your FLACs to ALAC, which is Apple's own lossless format. You will have no quality loss because both are lossless.
Check out fre:ac for an easy way to convert audio files. It supports batch processing, and can convert between most formats. https://www.freac.org/
If you want a Quicktime-like experience, with support for every format imaginable, and extensive configurability, use IINA.
There a program called fre:ac which is free (with no bs) and pretty easy to use, and it supports all kinds of formats.
FLAC is great because it doesn't affect the audio whatsoever, but will save you maybe 50% of space.
Opus is the best lossy codec. It works great even at lower bitrate (although I would recommend cranking up the quality - you'll be on the safe side and still save a ton of space).
If you need compatibility with old hardware or software, you'll have to use AAC or even MP3, but you can always re-encode in that case too.
> I'd be interested, what converter do you use?
I've found fre:ac to be the best for my use-case.
https://www.freac.org/
I like that it has a lot of settings for the way the VBR MP3-encoding is done, and whether or not it does anything with ID3 tags.
Also, I haven't tried rendering-to-MP3-from-Reaper in several years. Back then, I was encountering a lot of audible artifacts in the rendered MP3s, and because of this, I abandoned the use of Reaper's render-to-any-format-but-WAV. Have you encountered any of these audible artifacts in the render-to-MP3 feature? Perhaps that got fixed in the intervening years.
VLC can convert into mp3. If you try to convert 5gb flax to pure audio cd you will need a lot of CDs :) so MP3 might be your best bet.
fre:ac is a program. Pretty basic looking but solid in functionality.
Reading CDs I prefer EAC which manages to read even scratched CDs quite accurately.
I used the program fre:ac to rip the audiobook cds that I borrowed from my local library.
It took me a while to configure it the way I wanted but it worked like a charm. It had a setting so that I could rip all of the tracks from each CD and combine them into one mp3 file. (10 CD set = 10 mp3s).
One thing that it does not do is maintain chapters that may be present on the CDs.
If you need to, there is a free audio converter that will easily convert your FLAC files to ALAC. This is genuinely free software, not mal/crapware. It is here: https://www.freac.org/
ALAC (Apple Lossless) doesn't use that much more hard drive space than 320K AAC. Without getting into an endless debate about can you tell the difference (and it is more likely you can, if you can, using headphones) my suggestion would be to use AAC when hard drive space is important, otherwise why not keep using FLAC?
It sounds unhelpful, but anyone who's asking about Brawl audio modding is expected to know how to transcode between formats (yes, in batch). That's one of the simpler things you can do with audio, which is why specifically asking for WAV copies of a losslessly encoded release is a very strange request. Hence the reply you got from u/sonicrings4.
That said, everyone starts somewhere. Since the source files are losslessly compressed, you can convert them straight into WAV, which albeit the larger filesize, will result in no quality loss.
This can be easily done with tools such as foobar2000 (easiest to work with; select & right click -> convert), or fre:ac (takes more configuration, but you can easily create presets and rely on it for transcoding).
Next time, I would advise quickly Googling how to batch-convert files to WAV instead of asking the OP to convert all 28gb of lossless data to WAV (increasing the filesize to 40gb at the very least), and then upload it online.
That said, good luck importing the tracks into Brawl, and I hope this post helped you understand the conversion process a little more.
Hi,
It's pretty much the same thing as changing textures. I'm going to assume you know how to make the base for a resource pack starting with the minecraft assets folder (if not, I could give some quick instructions or find a nice tutorial to link). The sounds are located in assets/minecraft/sounds and are stored as .ogg files. If the sound files you would like to use for your pack aren't in the .ogg fromat, use a converter (others have recommended LameXP and fre : ac as free and safe, but I haven't actually done any of this myself, so not sure). Then, just replace the default sound files with your sounds, making sure to name it the same way.
Hope this helps!
> An audio CD is very different from a data CD, it doesn't have an ISO9660 filesystem or blocks that can be read via dd(1).
TIL. Thanks!
> You should be able to convert these to FLAC?
Yes, I did it with fre:ac.
Use a different program for ripping that'll get the metadata you want. I was a fan of fre:ac before switching over to MusicBee, but didn't have your problem because none of my CDs contain that kind of metadata (that I know of). Look around, if that one won't do the job others might.
Use Freac (https://www.freac.org/index.php) to convert basically any audio file format into another. M4a to mp3 is possible. If you want you can also use itunes to convert your m4as into mp3s (https://appuals.com/how-to-convert-m4a-to-mp3-on-a-macos/)
I use fre:ac to rip to .ogg; it can also do other formats, such as FLAC, AAC, WAV, Bonk, and WMA. If I recall, it doesn't convert to mp3 out of the box (thanks to licensing issues), but you can download the LAME encoder for free.
I use fre:ac
Rip to FLAC. Takes about a min per disk.
Once you've got it all, you can convert the whole pile to MP3 if they require it for portable players and keep the FLAC stored somewhere.
If you want to archive it to a single disk or something and the burner has the capability, burn all the FLAC files to M DISCs. Amazon has them for a reasonable price.
It'll convert CDs to MP3s, structure the new files in a library of sorts (so folders for artists/albums), you can do it right onto the USB stick.
Edit: I will not do this, I meant "it'll"
If you're on Mac, I suggest either XLD or MAX Encoder (I personally prefer MAX)
On Windows try fr:ac audio converter
FreeAc use the beta/snapshots because stable release lacks opus for example. BTW here are results of public hearing tests in which opus won at being indisingushible from flac at 96kb http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
You're always going to lose some quality converting to MP3 - it's a lossy format by its very definition.
Assuming you still want to convert to MP3 anyway, I've always found fre:ac to be the easiest/best way to do it.