(And considering how many barriers Foobar puts up in front of you, with its horrific default configuration, they've got plenty to deal with just in that program.) Other people obviously will feel differently, and will say so. I think that if someone is trying to start up with FLAC, using Foobar exclusively is going to remove a lot of barriers for them and make it far more likely that they'll succeed. There's nothing wrong with dbPowerAmp, other than that Foobar can handle it, and since you're already going to be using Foobar, there's no reason not to just stick with it.) When I realized that Foobar could do ripping and conversion, converting my library from WMA Lossless to FLAC went from a highly dubious proposition to a feasible and practical one.Īs for people strongly expressing opinions, well, I feel strongly about this one. (Edit: Although I went back and refreshed myself on what the issues were, and it turns out dbPowerAmp was working correctly, and the highly-regarded Tag&Rename was totally screwing up and not showing metadata properly. When I tried to use those tools to work with FLAC, it was a painful, hair-tearing-out experience. Many people like EAC and say good things about it. Many people like dbPowerAmp and say good things about it. I've used dbPoweramp whenever doing transcodes other than the original rip when EAC does the wav->flac. I've been using flac for three years and have about 1/2 a terabyte.
That's an awful provocative statement there. Originally Posted by nspindel /img/forum/go_quote.gif But if it weren't for the fact that I'm off to bed, I'd offer a few choice words about posters who take the position that anyone's opinion other than their own ought to be ignored. I use foobar as a player, so I know how good it is, I'm not knocking it. dbPoweramp is a very highly regarded and well reviewed transcoder, capable of reproducing an entire directory tree of flacs into another format or vice versa with a few mouse clicks, and yes the tags are maintained.
Foobar will convert WMA-L to FLAC, and preserve metadata where feasible (no current support in FLAC for embedded album art tags, yet).
Free wma to flac converter software#
My painfully-earned experience is that if you want to do anything with FLAC, and anyone mentions software that's not Foobar, you should ignore them. Originally Posted by mkozlows /img/forum/go_quote.gif Post-conversion, you may want to re-get the cover art anyway, to have sharper/higher-res versions.
Also, apparently drag-and-dropping cover art into WMP 11 further compresses/shrinks the art, because all the art I brought in via WMP was very low-res (and weirdly faded) compared to the originals.
WMP is entirely capable of displaying cover art based on the folder.jpg files, if there's nothing in the tags, so this would allow you to still use cover art in WMP later (as well as in apps that are going to use your FLAC archive, like Foobar or SlimServer).Īside: The CoverArt plugin for Foobar is really slick, and would have saved me hours of time when I went back and added cover art to all my albums. If you convert your WMA files to FLAC using a similar directory structure (artist\album, I think is the default for WMP), you can use xcopy to bulk copy the album art into the directory where the FLACs are. You should have folder.jpg files in the directories where your WMA files are stored. Is it correct to say that there is not a program that will convert FLAC to WMA Lossless and retrieve album art during the conversion process? I want to have the album art in some kind of retrievable format for WMC.
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