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This tutorial will walk you through the steps to convert.flac files to.mp3 using OS X and one Open Source (free) app. This tutorial was first published in 2006. I have updated it (July 2015) so that it’s current and uses the easiest, most straight forward process possible (and of course, free software). If you’re looking for the Windows version of this guide, check. First things first, you’ll need to and configure it. You’ll only need to go through the configuration process once – every subsequent time you want to convert a flac to an mp3 it will just be a few clicks.

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Once you’ve downloaded Max, double-click the file to extract it. Drag Max.app to your Applications folder to install it. Launch Max from your Applications folder.

No “window” will open, but you’ll notice the Menu Bar now lists Max as the active Application. Select Max and then Preferences. Select the Formats tab. Select MP3 from the Available output formats:, and click the small plus (+) button.

Now select MP3 from the Configured output formats: list by clicking on it once, and then click the Encoder Settings button. From here you can determine the quality of the MP3s that Max will output. I prefer higher quality MP3s, so from the Encoder quality: drop-down menu, I selected Best. Click OK when you’ve determined the quality of the outputted MP3s.

Now place a check in the box labeled MP3. Select the Output tab from the top menu.

In the Locations section, click the Output files: menu. Change it to Same as source file.

This means that your converted MP3s will be created inside the same folder that the originating FLAC files reside it. It makes them very easy to find once the conversions have completed.

Close the Preferences window, select File from the Menu Bar, and then Convert Files. Navigate to the folder with your FLAC file(s), select them, and click the Open button. The File Conversion window will pop up, with all of the FLAC files you selected in the previous step.

Click the Convert button from the top menu. Sit back and watch your FLAC files convert to MP3. This process can take quite a while, depending on the number of FLAC files you’re converting and the speed of your Mac. Once the conversion has completed, navigate to the folder that contained your FLAC files. You’ll notice that for each one, there’s now a corresponding MP3 file.

You can sort the MP3s from here, add them to iTunes etc. Going forward, you’ll only need to open Max and start at step #13 when you want to convert more FLAC files to MP3.

Nicely presented tutorial. I’d like to add to this thread that anyone that knows how to open up a terminal on Mac OS X take a look at this script: It’s simple really, you run the script, wait a bit. 12 flac files found. Processing “01-Futuresex,Lovesound.flac” Processing “02-Sexyback.flac” Processing “03-Sexy Ladies.flac” etc, etc.

Then find you have an iPod friendly directory of mp3’s. Apart from the lack of interaction it also maintains the metadata tags which I’d consider almost essential. The xAct/iTunes method won’t maintain tags as I understand it. Horses for courses and all that. @: I just sent this as an email to you – but I might as well post it here to help other folks. Does it happen w/ more than one fileset? From a different group of flacs?

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That error usually happens when the.flac files are corrupt. You can usually tell if they’re corrupt by trying to play them – if they don’t play, they’re buggered. If they do play, there might (?) be a problem w/ xact (which I doubt). There’s a great program that I should use to re-write my mac flac mp3 tutorials called “Max” by sbooth. It’s free, and it can convert pretty much any file you throw at it from one format to another. Give it a shot – if it fails too – or if the flac files don’t even play – it’s because they’re corrupt.

Which means whoever made them messed it up, or the download never actually completed. Highly recommend X Lossless Decoder (XLD).

Freeware open source that is command line, but also has a very nice easy to use GUI. You can go from flac to just about any format Mac/iPod/itunes supportalso very fast, and grabs or retians ID3 and cover art in the process for flac conversion and also most other conversions too like.ape etc. You can grab it here: It’s constantly being updated/improved. The website has command line instructions, but if you use the GUI (the XLD.app) it’s just a matter of setting the preferences and drag and drop convertingvery easy. You can also grab the latest builds of various decoders from there too, and compile the latest builds of XLD if you know how, otherwise using the lastest GUI download works great. Available in a different languages. Author has a donate button on his page, if you use this a lot it would be cool to support the author so he continues to develop the program (I have no connection with the author, just my 2 cents).

Thank you very much that works well. I realized (after trashing my files) that its necessary to save the wav files in my regular folder, other wise, Itunes creates the converted mp3 files, and saves it in the iTunes folder, in my Users folder. Unfortunately, that is just the copy version and is not a hard copySo I just save the converted.wav files, and add those to my external drive back up, so that I have the originals of my files and not just a soft copy. I dont want to save FLAC files, either, cause they take up so much room.

I recently got my first iMAC. I was able to convert flac files to wav using the method described here. Now, every time I try, I get error messages on nearly every track. (Occasionally, one track will convert successfully, but not often.) The error report I get is: /Volumes/My Book/Bob Dylan/2010 live/Bob Dylan 3-16-10 Osaka hide taper/bd2010-03-1601.flac: bd2010-03-1601.flac: ERROR while decoding data state = FLACSTREAMDECODERREADFRAME Can someone help me out with this.

I never had any problem like this when I had a PC. Thanks Wayland. Hey wayland, i have a brand new MAC with snow leo. If you notice this xACT program help is a bit different when it comes from the instructions between OS X and SnowLeo. Eventually I figured it out.

In some occasions I have converted the flac to wav and then to MP3 for iTunes to play and for some reason (after being converted to MP3’s) ITunes could not play them showing that the tracks couldn’t be found and asking: “would you like to search for them?”, weird!!!! Once again, some how, now it works.

Have you try do them one at the time? Have you try to convert other flac music files in your new MAC? I suggest to keep trying and see if it would work, I am puzzled why it is showing that error report in your brand new MAC. Please let us know if you get it to work.

Xact Audio

XACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit, an application that encodes and decodes FLAC, SHN, Monkey's Audio, TTA, Wavpack, and Apple Lossless files. It also can encode these formats to MP3, AAC, or Opus, and do various other utility functions, in addition to a full set of shntool functions.

Under the hood, xACT is a GUI based front end for the unix applications Shorten (3.6.1), shntool (3.0.10), Monkey's Audio Compressor (3.99), flac (1.3.1), wavpack (4.70.0), TTA (3.4.1), Opus 0.1.6, and cdda2wav 3.0 (with paranoia support). It also uses SoX ( What's New in xACT. XACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit, an application that encodes and decodes FLAC, SHN, Monkey's Audio, TTA, Wavpack, and Apple Lossless files.

It also can encode these formats to MP3, AAC, or Opus, and do various other utility functions, in addition to a full set of shntool functions. Under the hood, xACT is a GUI based front end for the unix applications Shorten (3.6.1), shntool (3.0.10), Monkey's Audio Compressor (3.99), flac (1.3.1), wavpack (4.70.0), TTA (3.4.1), Opus 0.1.6, and cdda2wav 3.0 (with paranoia support). It also uses SoX ( 14.4.2), LAME (3.99.5), AtomicParsley (0.9.0), TagLib (1.9.1) and MP4v2 (2.0.0). It executes the basic commands of these applications and adds other features to speed up productivity in creation/use of etree.org standard filesets.