An audio conversion app (also known as an audio converter)
transcodes one
audio file format
An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, o ...
into another; for example, from
FLAC
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software p ...
into
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Orig ...
. It may allow selection of encoding parameters for each of the output file to optimize its quality and size. An audio converter uses at least two sets of
audio codecs
An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software, an audio codec is a computer program implementing an algorithm that compresses and decompres ...
to decode the source file format and to encode the destination file.
Audio converters include:
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AIMP
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Audacity
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Brasero
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CDex
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Exact Audio Copy
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FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing of ...
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FL Studio
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foobar2000
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FormatFactory
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FormatFactory is an ad-supported freeware multimedia converter that can convert video, audio, and picture files. It is also capable of ripping DVDs and CDs to other file formats, as well as creating .iso images. It can also join multip ...
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Freemake Audio Converter
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Free Studio
Free Studio is a freeware set of multimedia programs developed by DVDVideoSoft. The programs are available in one integrated package and also as separate downloads ("Free Studio Manager" is included in both).
Overview
The Free Studio software bu ...
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fre:ac
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iTunes
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k3b
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MediaCoder __NOTOC__
MediaCoder is a proprietary transcoding program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Stanley Huang since 2005.
Features
MediaCoder uses various open-source (and several proprietary) audio and video codecs to transcode media files to diff ...
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MediaHuman Audio Converter
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MediaMonkey
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SoX
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VLC Media Player
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Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Sin ...
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WMA Convert
WMA Convert is a software created for audio and video files conversion.
Features
The program supports conversion of MP3, M4A AAC, WAV, WMA audio file formats and MP4, WMV, AVI video formats. Also coverts M4P files to MP3. The option "conve ...
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XMedia Recode
See also
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Comparison of free software for audio
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List of music software
References
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Audio conversion software