Windows 10: Apple AAC to FLAC FREE lossless conversion --

Hi folks

If you have either a Linux system or a Windows system with BASH installed on it then the job is simply done with the following script.

for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:a flac "${f%.m4a}.flac"; done

For Ubuntu users - (physical or VM's) you might get a message saying ffmpeg is deprecated --that's not actually true --just download the current version.

Some music apps on phones won't always play m4a files but they all will generally play FLAC - and with decent capacity micro sdhc cards and a proper set of headphones there's no reason to have horribly compressed mp3 music -- I'd recommend if you must use mp3 stick to 320 kbs or at the very least 256 kbs.

The DACS in most decent smart phones are perfectly good to give a good rendering of uncompressed music -- and decent headphones such as BOSE / Sennheiser etc even on blue tooth will be more than satisfactory.

BTW if you can still find a copy of Winamp on Android it will actually play mp4a (always assuming the smartphones hardware can handle it).

I'm still using good old winamp pro on my Windows system --still works even on Windows 10 !!.

Cheers
jimbo

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Xpress Music Series & FLAC Support?

FLAC is the most efficient lossless format. And it's completely free!

FLAC files sound much better than any lossy files, including AAC..





I beg to differ .

But if Nokia put all the obscure formats in to a phone it would be the size of a brick .





jje

 

Xpress Music Series & FLAC Support?

FLAC is the most efficient lossless format. And it's completely free!

FLAC files sound much better than any lossy files, including AAC..



BTW, sony ericsson already announced an out of the box FLAC supporting phone - the Zylo.



Nokia, take music seriously, please add FLAC support via firmware update for all your music phones!