If you want to convert FLAC to MP3 in Mac OS X at no cost, the easiest way to do so is using a utility called All2MP3. Inform the encoder to write down a PADDING metadata block of the given size (in bytes) after the STREAMINFO block. This …

No, I all the time convert my audio to AIFF or WAV first. Although there are free software options, like iTunes, that may extract audio from a CD and convert it to smaller and more manageable file size, we found through our testing course …