Good free .flac to wav converter?

[CHARLIEBORG]

I used a good converter a few years ago, but I cant remember what it was. What do you use?

 

[coasthub]

I use Format Factory, free, fast, converts all formats to all formats.
I'm Happy with it.

 

[smakme7757]

I don't know about free, but I use dbpoweramp. Pretty much the best conversion software for audio available.

 

[lxskllr]

I use Clementine music player. On Windows, I used Foobar2000.

 

[CHARLIEBORG]

Thanks. I will try them and see which one I like best.

 

[MontyAC]

You can try LameXP:

http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/

 

[JManInPhoenix]

I use Sound Converter with Ubuntu

 

[lamedude]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/files/flac-win

flac.exe -d foo.flac

 

[Cerb]

For a GUI, on Windows, I'd use FB2K.

 

[coffeejunkee]

Why not just use the official flac frontend?

For flac to mp3 I use flacsquisher + lame.

 

[PliotronX]

Foobar2000 with standard FLAC executable gets me by. When I discovered it can maintain chaptering I ceased looking for other decoders. The ability to enable high quality resampling and downmixing is icing on the cake.

 

[coffeejunkee]

Sorry...chaptering, in a wav file? And what do you mean by resampling/downmixing? This thread is just about converting a flac file back to wav right? Why would you want to resample?

 

[PliotronX]

Sorry...chaptering, in a wav file? And what do you mean by resampling/downmixing? This thread is just about converting a flac file back to wav right? Why would you want to resample?

Sorry, I guess they are called cue marks, kind of like if you have a large WAV and want to quickly skip to certain parts a la a cue file. I used to use this a lot with GoldWave and FLAC decoded with Foobar2000 restored those flawlessly. Resampling for say making ringtones out of, I still use this for my own ringtones. Mono/22KHz works quite well for saving space and yielding acceptable quality... just food for thought I doubt anyone cares but it's what I use.

 

[coffeejunkee]

Are you by any chance talking about playing back a wav or flac file and being able to select individual tracks within it? If so, other mediaplayers like aimp3 can do the same. But for converting it doesn't really make sense to me, I'd want my single flac file to become a single wav file (or vice versa). If I do want to cut them up I use EAC for that.

Ringtones, mp3 is good enough for me.

 

[PliotronX]

Yes, without segmenting the WAV there can be cue marks embedded. If I need to decode to WAV, maintaining those marks comes in handy at times.

I know, nobody cares about the quality of their ringtones...

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

foobar does this.