How to convert .flac files to .mp3 using OS X

by Ross McKillop on July 15, 2006

Mac iPod

You’ve downloaded a show or two from http://bt.etree.org and now you want to convert the .flac files to .mp3 to take with you on your iPod or MP3 player. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to do just that, using OS X. Read on ..

First things first, make sure you’ve downloaded and installed xACT and iTunes, both of which are free.

There are two steps in converting your .flac files to .mp3. The first is to decode the .flac’s into .wav files. After that’s done, you’ll encode the .wav files into .mp3’s.

Decoding .flac files with xACT
Encoding .wav files with iTunes

Decoding .flac files with xACT

  1. Launch xACT and select the decode tab
  2. Click the add button
  3. Navigate to the .flac files you want to decode, select them all, and then click Add files

  4. Click to enlarge

  5. Now you’ll need to select the output - I use and suggest .wav. Click Decode when you’re ready

  6. Click to enlarge

  7. You’ll be prompted to choose a location to save the output files. Select the same folder where the .flac files are located and then click Choose

  8. Click to enlarge

  9. Go put on a pot of coffee. The decoding process only takes a few minutes.
  10. When it’s completed you’ll be back at the decode screen but there won’t be any files in the decode list. Feel free to close xACT now.

Encoding .wav files with iTunes

  1. Open up iTunes and select iTunes from the top menu, and then Preferences… from the drop-down list
  2. Select the Advanced tab from the top menu, and then Importing from the lower menu

  3. Click to enlarge

  4. From the Import Using: list, select MP3 Encoder
  5. From the Setting: list, select your quality preference. I happen to have a lot of space on my portable MP3 player, so I opt for Higher Quality (192 kbps)
  6. It also annoys me to have songs playing while they’re importing, so I disable that feature by removing the check from the box labeled Play songs while importing. This is entirely optional. Click OK to return to iTunes.
  7. Now select File from the top menu, and then Add to Library… from the drop-down list
  8. Navigate to the folder where you saved all of the .wav files from xACT, select that folder, and then click Choose

  9. Click to enlarge

  10. iTunes will now import all of the .wav’s into iTunes. Find all of the newly added files (usually at the bottom of your iTunes list, but it depends on how you sort your music) and select them all. Once they’re all highlighted, right-click (ctrl-click for you one-button folks) on any of the selected songs and choose Convert Selection to MP3 from the pop-up menu.
  11. Remember that pot of coffee you put on while the .flac files were decoding? Now’s the time to get a cup. While iTunes is encoding your MP3s, a status indicator will appear in the left window (see image below). Depending on how “fast” your mac is (processor speed, memory etc) and how many files you’re encoding, this step can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour.
  12. Once all of the files have been encoded, iTunes will probably beep to get your attention. Before you start listening to your music, now’s a good time to get rid of the .wav files, since they’re no longer needed. You should notice that ever other track in iTunes is highlighted. These are the .wav files - get them out of iTunes by clicking the delete key on your keyboard. If iTunes asks if you want to delete the files as well as remove them from iTunes, feel free to do so (you should still have the source .flac files if you ever need an uncompressed version again)
  13. That’s it! You’re done. You can now tag the files in iTunes, transfer them to your iPod etc. If you need to get at the MP3s, they will likely be located in Mac Hard Drive:Users:you:Music:iTunes:iTunes Music:

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    { 117 comments… read them below or add one }

    1 Hans 09.30.06 at 2:04 pm

    no

    2 Ross 09.30.06 at 2:37 pm

    No?

    3 Naga 10.17.06 at 3:16 pm

    YOU ROCK, MAN. THANK YOU.

    4 Rob 11.29.06 at 12:25 am

    Too complicated, isn’t it better to pay $20 for a professional converter that will convert flac to mp3 directly in three clicks? I use Total Audio Converter for that task.

    5 scaven7 01.13.07 at 9:50 pm

    Thanks so much! USEFUL!!!

    6 Kate 01.26.07 at 11:28 pm

    Thank you - very helpful!

    7 marcel 02.21.07 at 1:53 am
    8 Kyle 02.22.07 at 6:36 pm

    Holy crap, thankyou so much for this info. I am very lucky to have found it. All I wanted to do is get a f—in mp3 ringtone and I have put 5+ hours into it. Now with Audacity and this little bit on itunes converting it is now possible. Thats the Apple drawback, no software. Yeah I couldn’t even find what I wanted even if I pay. Rediculous.

    Well now I can make my own ringtones out of my purchased music, thanks a lot.

    Oh, no I dont want to pay! (coming form someone in college!)

    9 etch 03.11.07 at 6:08 am

    MASSIVE THANKS MAN, much appreciated for that, sooooooooo useful…

    10 Andy 03.23.07 at 9:23 am

    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:

    http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3

    It’s simple really, you run the script, wait a bit..

    12 flac files found. Sorting…done.
    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.

    Andy

    11 mitchjet 04.02.07 at 7:02 am

    thank you so much for this simple and effective explanation!

    i was devastated when, for some reason, my computer took a WHOLE day to download some files, then i opened it, and they were .flac files, a format i’d NEVER heard of!

    thankyou for making it possible for me to hear them on my iPod now!

    12 Daylan 04.11.07 at 4:01 pm

    Thanks man! You’re my hero

    13 fifi 04.17.07 at 12:08 am

    It would be easier to use a program named NoteBurner. The program works with iTunes, Windows Media Player and Realone. You can convert all protected or unprotected music to plain mp3, wam or wav easily.

    14 Johanna 05.02.07 at 9:59 pm

    Awesome instructions - thanks so much!

    15 Charly 05.03.07 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks so much, you’ve made my day!

    16 Zack 05.12.07 at 6:55 am

    Thank you sooooooo much. You’re a Godsend.

    17 Mauricio Ulloa 05.18.07 at 4:52 am

    Very very helpfull, it is just a matter of patience.
    Thank you very much

    18 Christophe diezma 05.18.07 at 8:10 am

    Hey you, thanks so much for the info .. I have had all these Bach music on .flac that I have not been able to play on my iPod .. this did it! YOU ARE THE MAN !

    19 Tom 05.20.07 at 10:41 am

    Thank you. Not that fast but efficient :)

    20 Raph 05.21.07 at 2:23 am

    Nice tutorial, but it’s a bit complicated, you can use a freeware called Max which can convert nearly any audio format to another directly:

    Max Audio Ripper Tutorial

    21 mystic 05.21.07 at 7:30 am

    thank yo so much. Such a great tutorial … really took you thru each step and even explaining how long each step would take, the best one I’ve ever come across. Thank you!

    22 Andrea 06.09.07 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks so much. These directions were perfect and easy to follow. You are a genius! I bookmarked this page

    Andrea
    mom to Estee Li Li
    the Sweetest little girl in all of China

    23 Rich 07.21.07 at 9:07 am

    This prog and step by step has been invaluable to me. I found the entire process to be very straightforward. Great work! Thank you very much.

    24 Jon 08.03.07 at 12:08 am

    Cracking Tutorial

    Keep up the good work (wish there were more tutorials on the web like this one, 5 minute job)

    Cheers John

    25 mike 08.09.07 at 3:29 pm

    I know how to convert regular flac files, but flac16 files to not convert on xact on my macbook. I have had a John Mayer show sitting on my desktop for months and have been unable to convert it. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.

    26 Gary D 08.30.07 at 2:27 pm

    I downloaded the software v.1.59 and followed the step by step guide but the .flac files are not decoding, I have been promted by an error and the software won’t decode even when I tick the box go bypass the error!

    error message below:

    > /Users/garyjamesdickson/Documents/Azureus Downloads/Lou Reed - Between Thought And Expression/Disc 1/01 - I Can’t Stand It.flac: flac: invalid option — /
    flac: invalid option — U

    27 gariba 09.18.07 at 2:52 pm

    Ralph,
    that tip of MAX, was GREAT!
    Just GREAT
    THanks A LOT!
    gariba

    28 Rady Fahmy 10.13.07 at 4:29 pm

    Thank you a mil, it worked like a breeze.

    29 Anna 10.16.07 at 2:51 am

    Your tutorial is fantastic! Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly fine.

    30 jsitruk 11.02.07 at 4:09 pm

    Thank you so much! This is a real explanation! with picture etc..

    31 Mark 11.03.07 at 11:27 am

    Did you ever get any help on this? I’m having the same problem. Thanks! Mark

    32 Ross McKillop 11.03.07 at 11:35 am

    @Mark:

    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? ie. from a different group of
    flacs? 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.

    http://sbooth.org/Max/

    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…

    33 ananda 11.03.07 at 5:41 pm

    Or….

    Use Toast.

    34 jørgen 11.08.07 at 5:11 am

    Thank you!

    35 Joan Covington 11.19.07 at 6:45 am

    I keep getting “error while decoding metadata” responses. Perhaps the files really are corrupt, but — Any suggestions?

    36 what ever 11.27.07 at 11:49 am

    NO, because you lose all the metadata when you go from FLAC to wave. We need to go from FLAC to MP3 and retain the metadata.

    Unless you enjoy tediously typing in the same information over and over.

    37 mike 11.28.07 at 5:26 pm

    I know how to convert regular flac files, but flac16 files to not convert on xact on my macbook. I have had a John Mayer show sitting on my desktop for months and have been unable to convert it. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.

    38 Ross McKillop 11.28.07 at 11:27 pm

    mike,

    Does the show play using Cog or any flac player? If it doesn’t decode,
    it sounds like the flacs might be corrupt. Does xact give an error
    when it can’t decode them?

    39 zoro 12.14.07 at 4:49 am

    thanks man! coffee tastes better with music..

    40 claytron 12.15.07 at 8:49 pm

    The Max program is very nice. I had to use the ‘unstable’ version on leopard. Converted some .flac and some .ogg files effortlessly and even had growl notifications when it was done. Beautiful!

    41 rachel 12.25.07 at 6:16 am

    This was SUPER useful, thank you so much! :D

    42 Kenneth 03.23.08 at 12:45 pm

    Thanks. I used xACT V.1,62 and converted from .FLAC to mp3 without itunes.

    43 Beth 03.28.08 at 5:20 pm

    thanks for this helpful, easy to use tutorial!

    44 alan 04.02.08 at 3:21 pm

    hi there,

    many thanks for this tutorial, i’m very new to all this and i really have to thank you.

    made it very simple to follow.

    all the best,

    alan

    45 Jo 04.16.08 at 4:35 am

    Hey, nice one!!!! x x

    46 John Chow 04.27.08 at 6:11 pm

    And why do all this and not download a free flac player?

    47 Ross McKillop 04.27.08 at 6:15 pm

    John Chow,

    Typically because iPods don’t support flac files.

    48 Laura 05.09.08 at 1:47 am

    Thanks for the tutorial! You have made it fool-proof; as simple as tying my shoelaces :P

    49 kyuss 05.15.08 at 1:02 pm

    Thanks for you efforts, this tutorial looks great
    …only problem is every time I try to convert the FLAC I get the error:
    “Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC”

    does anyone know what this means, or how I can resolve it?
    ….would appreciate any advice please :)

    50 Dee 05.16.08 at 4:18 pm

    thanks man, this helped me out.

    51 Ultricon 05.22.08 at 12:39 pm

    I went to that website for xACT (for mac) but there’s no way to download the program there.

    How do you download xACT?

    Thanks

    52 Joel 05.22.08 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks for the info, no need to make them mp3’s unless you want smaller files. wavs sound better.

    53 Ross McKillop 05.22.08 at 5:57 pm

    @Ultricon:

    Good catch. Looks like the site is (gone?) down. At the very least all of the files are missing. Here’s a link where you can download it (I just confirmed)

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952

    54 nicholas 05.23.08 at 7:26 pm

    This was great, thank you!

    55 IchabodChron 05.24.08 at 2:18 am

    Haha, it’s really funny that everyone used this guide and spent all that time when xACT can just do MP3 encoding on a FLAC. Using iTunes for MP3 encoding doesn’t actually keep the FLAC files high quality for those who care about sound quality.

    56 FlacIt 06.05.08 at 11:27 pm

    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 support…also 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: http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

    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 converting…very 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).

    57 Wally 06.12.08 at 1:55 am

    Thanks for the tip! It worked great!

    58 Mark 06.12.08 at 4:03 am

    Thank you so much, man!!! You have made my day!

    59 a-gong 06.14.08 at 9:00 am

    I am very impressed, thank you.

    60 Bucky 06.17.08 at 2:11 pm

    @ IchabodChron

    Older versions of xACT couldn’t do the mp3 encoding…you’ll notice there’s no lossy tab at the top of the screenshot ins tep 4.

    xACT have certainly made it a little easier to go from FLAC to mp3 without using any other software now. Nice one.

    And thanks for the tutorial Ross.

    61 Greg 06.22.08 at 7:13 pm

    Thank you so much!

    62 Ignacio Fernández 07.03.08 at 3:35 am

    Thanks man. really helpful

    63 Hip nip 07.04.08 at 10:13 pm

    Extremely Useful,
    Thank you Sir!

    64 Stuart Campbell 07.11.08 at 3:23 pm

    No as in, Do not use 192KBs that will sound deplorable. You download flac for the sound quality. use lime wire if you wanting rubbish mp3s. at least put it to 320 KBs. or better yet if you are using an iPod then encode it as an Aiff.

    65 vijay kate 07.14.08 at 9:02 am

    ???well, at least on itunes 7.7, flac doesn’t get converted, tpic heading being flac-to-mp3, no it don’t work. maybe bastards apple, they always heted open source support

    66 OROB 07.15.08 at 2:09 pm

    that wasn’t complicated, why waste money when that only took less than 10 min?

    67 Steve 07.24.08 at 4:17 pm

    Brilliant! Thank-you so much, this was expertly laid out, clear and concise, and basically held my hand through the process, which is what I need being a computer dunce. Much appreciated!

    68 Janie 08.05.08 at 7:06 pm

    Thank you so much! You are excellent!

    69 David 08.05.08 at 7:21 pm

    Perfect!

    Thank you!

    70 James 08.09.08 at 10:11 am

    Thanks so much. I paid the extra money for the new Girl Talk album and got it as .FLAC files, forgetting they wouldn’t play on my iPod. Worked great, no hassle, no need to pay for a program to do it. Fantastic.

    71 Alex 08.16.08 at 2:19 pm

    Awesome tutorial!

    Thanks!

    72 lainelike 08.16.08 at 2:38 pm

    you can just dag all your flac files into xACT in the lossy tab and convert them then and there no need to decode them then re encode them in itunes at all also full bitrate control too
    thanks for tip on using xACT tho :)

    73 SD 08.21.08 at 11:42 am

    Thank you so very much. That was clear, clean and well written.
    LOVE IT!
    SD

    74 LS00711 09.03.08 at 6:32 pm

    Just what I was looking for. Thanks

    75 HumpDeBump44 09.07.08 at 10:11 am

    Thanks man that was awesome. I’m totally lost with this stuff and I appreciate you taking the time to write this all up.

    76 Jen 09.18.08 at 9:11 am

    This worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!!!

    77 the baron 09.24.08 at 3:55 am

    Worked like a charm.
    Thnx!!

    78 steven 09.25.08 at 3:46 am

    thanks but its easier to just drag the files into itunes after converting them.

    79 Fernando 09.27.08 at 4:26 am

    I fond this several months ago and it’s bee working a treat on my MacBook!! Thanks so much.

    My problem now is that I have downloaded a whole cd that has been converted into a single flac. I assume that there is some way to decode into the separate tracks.

    I have the .cue .flac and .log files

    I can’t work it out and have looked on a couple of Mac forums but can’t see any help.

    I’d be grateful for some advice.

    80 Pluton 09.30.08 at 3:44 pm

    Thanx for help, I’ve recently switched to mac and I had no idea how to make once obvious convertion.

    81 Tim 10.01.08 at 9:36 am

    Thanks for sharing this with everyone. You couldn’t have made it any easier. You’re a gentleman and a scholar.

    82 LEWL 10.06.08 at 10:45 am

    THANX MAN, GREATLY EXPLAINED

    83 123ruffy 10.07.08 at 2:57 am

    Beautifully Simple

    84 dadako 10.09.08 at 10:55 pm

    thanks for this. iTunes has changed a little bit but the options are still there

    85 jose 10.12.08 at 12:28 am

    hey, i just used that program u mention on your tutorial but I went to the LOSSY option, chose my files and folder, chose the bibrate and click encode. and THAT WAS IT!! I was listening to my music on itunes on mp3 format. great sound, small MB size.

    86 evenless 10.13.08 at 9:51 am

    It all works well, but everything is so much easier using Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X). And it’s freeware too! Jut give it a try : http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/max.html

    87 Daniel 11.19.08 at 8:28 pm

    I’m having some serious issues getting it to appear on my ipod. I think I’m doing everything write…

    I’m using a flac file that is not from that site you provided…

    Maybe the problem is when I first download the flac. Where I first download it, where should I specify it to go?

    88 Garzillor 12.22.08 at 5:37 pm

    In Toast
    Put all songs into a Toast “audio” window.
    File > Save As Disc Image… > Save it to desktop.
    Utilities > Mount Disc Image > Chose the image

    In iTunes
    File > Add to Library > chose the the songs on the fake CD image that is mounted .
    Click OK.

    It took about a total of 1 minute, works great.

    89 Ross McKillop 12.22.08 at 11:52 pm

    Garzillor -

    Yes, I can see that as being a pretty good method as well. The only problem being that Toast isn’t free, and all of the software used in this tutorial is. I bought Toast for some of the advanced burning options, but I’d guess a lot of folks might not (because the built in and/or free burning software for OS X covers their needs). Either way, neat ‘trick’ :)

    90 Dude 12.23.08 at 2:28 pm

    Or you could just use Toast Titanium…Create and Image, Mount that Image, then Import CD into iTunes. The only drag is having to enter the track info manually

    91 Z. 01.06.09 at 8:35 am

    Thank you!!

    92 hntrnyc 01.09.09 at 9:21 am

    Cheers! Worked like a charm. Easiest solution I’ve seen yet.

    93 What Haveyou 01.25.09 at 2:49 pm

    While this will get the music converted, you’ll lose all the metadata. This means you won’t have artist, album, song name, anything. Wave files don’t support this metadata.

    That’s why we need a Mac app that does what Foobar2000 and others do on Windows: convert from FLAC to MP3 while retaining all metadata.

    94 Russell Barton 01.31.09 at 8:42 am

    Thank you it converted my FLAC files directly to MP3 Fast & Easy

    95 Bullie 02.02.09 at 2:41 am

    Thanks heaps for the instructions! It was so fast and easy. You’re rock!

    96 widdershins 02.03.09 at 7:15 pm

    wtf? that was so easy. I’ve been trying to figure that out forever. Thanks for pointing out a great app and writing up some very awesome guidelines.
    just a heads-up: the import settings for the version of iTunes i use were under the General tab.
    thanks again!

    97 Cat 02.15.09 at 11:51 pm

    Hey,
    the program stalled and wont close… I turned the computer on and off and yet its still trying to decode… How do I close the application???
    cheers

    98 Love from Canada! 02.19.09 at 9:43 am

    Thank you so much!

    99 Ryan 02.20.09 at 6:37 am

    In my itunes preferences, I clicked “advanced” and I don’t see a sub menu with “importing”

    What do I do?

    100 Jstema 02.23.09 at 8:09 pm

    @Ryan
    I’m pretty sure they’ve updated that so now its on the bottom of the ‘General’ preferences tab. I had the same problem.

    101 Siouxsie 02.24.09 at 9:40 pm

    THANK YOU!!!!!! :D

    102 J. 03.01.09 at 1:18 am

    I accidently followed a link here from a “how to play .ape files” thread to this, and I can’t believe people are still using this method. It’s a very nicely made tutorial, but so out of date. There are plenty of free applications can convert from flac to mp3 in like 1 click. I use X Lossless Decoder but if you google it there are many others.

    Also doing all this with wave files means you loose the metadata as wave doesn’t support it. Which means typing out all the track names all over again.

    103 A. 03.01.09 at 1:21 am

    Don’t forget that you can always convert to aplle lossless if you don’t want to loose the lossless-ness of your files :)

    104 John Galt 03.07.09 at 6:38 pm

    Amazingly easy.

    105 Michael 03.22.09 at 10:40 am

    If only everything on the internet was this well written and helpful. Thank you so much!

    106 Daryl 04.04.09 at 8:26 pm

    Thanks a lot!

    107 Lloyd 04.14.09 at 12:55 pm

    Amazing. Ive tried and faild to do so for months. if only i found you sooner!!

    Cheers!!

    108 brian z 04.20.09 at 3:06 pm

    To whoever wrote this page, you are the Socrates of the schools of the cyberage, and I pay tribute to a sage.

    109 Carlos 04.21.09 at 5:33 am

    All you have to do is add the tracks in WAV format or AIFF format to itunes. Then go to preferences, GENERAL-> IMPORT SETTING-> CHOOSE MP3 OR which ever you like. Then go back to the playlist, select all tracks and control click to show get info,rating, reset play count…. ect. Then click on convert or create mp3. This will do it with the tracks you have selected.

    110 Bob 04.21.09 at 10:27 am

    I got bad news. There have been some updates to iTunes and since I haven’t converted a flac in a while, I noticed that the Advanced screen in iTune preferences has changed; it no longer has the sub menu for ‘importing.’ So, I can’t continue after this step. Any ideas?

    111 Steph 04.22.09 at 8:07 pm

    Thank you for your very thorough and helpful description of how to convert FLAC files to MP3s on Macs! Very very helpful!

    112 T 05.07.09 at 5:21 pm

    Wouldn’t it be easier just to go straight from .flac to .mp3 with the LAME encoder using xACT (under “lossy” tab if LAME is installed)?

    113 cisco metal 05.14.09 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks !!

    114 Parn 05.18.09 at 12:55 pm

    Thank You. Good.

    115 jay 06.08.09 at 4:37 pm

    I am trying to convert a DMB show (.flac format), and keep getting this error —

    Can’t get «class view» id 15 of «class tabV» id 5 of window id 1. (-1728)”

    Any thoughts? I am using a mac….

    116 Ben 06.21.09 at 10:02 pm

    Wouldn’t it be easier just to go straight from .flac to .mp3 with the LAME encoder using xACT (under “lossy” tab if LAME is installed)?

    Agreed. This option worked fine for me.

    117 marxz 06.23.09 at 6:38 am

    looks like this artical needs to updated to include the flac to mp3 (via LAME) button that exists on the newer version.
    drage drop, change your bit rate (encode MP3 at the 128 default? I think not) click the button. done

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