Windows 10: Flac (24bit) to Flac (16 bit) decent converter program

Hi folks

I've some music that I want to leave as FLAC but the rubbish phone I've got won't play FLAC @24 bits but will handle FLAC at @16 bits.

Any decent programs around to convert to 16 bit. Note I'm using decent headphones so I don't want some mushy mp3 sound played using those hideous cheap bud type phones (usually more people Not wearing them hear the "music" than the wearers --especially the apple white one's !!!).





K3b (on Linux) will do it in a bit of a roundabout way --burn to a "Virtual audio CD" losslessly which preserves the sampling rate but you then need to re-rip again to get FLAC files for your device (and sometimes you have to re-tag too). For CD audio it will change the files to 16 bit which plays just fine and is standard for CD's but for CD's - you want to keep the decent sampling rate though





I'm looking for a simple quick way to do it !! on Windows and preferably Free without complicated "Dithering options" etc..

Cheers
jimbo

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PC Suite converts flac music files on the fly to AAC 128

PC Suite 6.86

Nokia 5320

Windows XP

I convert my music to AAC 128 with the Nokia PC Suite App. I drop files by hand onto the application and it converts it correctly.

Now I a have a lot of files encoded in flac format. I KNOW ALREADY that the 5320 does not play flac files.

(and I also know that there is the free app oggplay that plays flac, but because oggplay cannot use the hardware buttons of the Nokia 5320 this is not a solution for me).

But is it possible to have flac files converted on the fly when I drop them onto PC Suite. At the moment it doesn't seem to work so I guess Nokia Suite cannot read flac files to convert them to AAC?

Any way to change this?

 

WMP 12 in Windows 10 won't convert .flac when syncing to Windows Phone Lumia 1520

I have the same issue.

Windows 10 Media player supports and plays flac (with some tag issues), but when synching to a device that only supports 320kbps it ignores the flac file and fails to sync it.

WMA lossless does convert to WMA 320kbps.

When will WMP work for flac as well?

 

@jimbo,

Audacity has the option to handle Both 16 & 24 Bit so that may be an option

 

Hi there

Thanks

+1 for you

works brilliantly on Windows (and Linux too)

Does just what I want.





The advantage of using Linux over Windows in this type of instance for me is that I can run it natively from my NAS boxes and also I don't run into the file name restriction lengths with Windows (220 chars or so for path length _ directory _ file name) etc.

Windows must really address the old file length name restrictions - particularly if you have long file names representing descriptive track names etc for your music files.

However as a program it works superbly well both on Windows and Linux so great stuff there.

Cheers
jimbo