What's the best program to convert FLAC to MP3?
Music lovers often kept his collection in a FLAC format. This is really a great way to preserve the original sound quality. Despite the fact that the FLAC format is very popular and is supported by a huge number of equipment, it is not well suited for portable devices. See for yourself - you will not feel the difference in sound quality while on a noisy street. At the same time, the size always matter - music in MP3 format is ten times less space. Do you want to convert the entire collection to MP3? What do you think - how much time do you need? Time? Day? In fact - it is a really slow process.
Why it so slow?
I have a fast modern computer - why conversion requires so much time? In fact, ordinary audio converters can not use all the features of your computer. They use only one core of your quad-core CPU, and the rest are idle. Do not believe me? Open Task Manager and look at the Performance tab of the CPU usage during conversion.
Is there a way to speed up this?
YES! One day we are faced with a similar problem, and looked for way to speed up our FLAC to MP3 Converter. By themselves codecs do not support multi-core processors, so we decided to split the conversion process into several stages:
- One CPU core engaged FLAC decoding
- Second processor core handles uncompressed samples and encodes them into MP3
- If you have a quad-core processor, the third core is engaged preprocessing uncompressed samples
You can download our multithreaded FLAC to MP3 Converter from our website and make sure themselves in its speed.