How to Reduce FLAC Audio File Size?
Method One: Convert FLAC to MP3; Method Two: Lower FLAC bitrate
Many music fans prefer FLAC files, since FLAC files can offer very high audio quality. But if you have stored many FLAC music files on your computer or hard drive, you may find that your storing space is almost taken up. How to deal with it? Actually, FLAC file can indeed offer high audio quality, but if you are not a music professional person you can not really tell the difference between a FLAC file and an MP3 file.
So in order to save your storing space, many music fans choose to reduce their stored FLAC file size, to do which, a tool for reducing the FLAC file size is needed. Avdshare Audio Converter, as the most powerful tool for reducing FLAC file size, is highly recommended. The following article just teaches you how to reduce FLAC file size with Avdshare Audio Converter in two methods.
Method One: Convert FLAC to MP3
If you are not a music professional person or have no specific requirement of the music format or quality, you can convert your FLAC files to MP3 files. The steps are: 1. Click the "Add file" button to add your FLAC file to Avdshare Audio Converter. 2. Click "Profile" button >"General Audio" category where you need to select MP3 as your output format. 3. Click the "Convert" button to start and finish the FLAC to MP3 file conversion work.
Method Two: Lower FLAC bitrate
Before following the steps, you need to know that when you lower the FLAC bitrate the FLAC audio quality also becomes worse. Follow the steps below to lower the FLAC file bitrate:
Click the "Add file" button to allow the FALC import to Avdshare Audio Converter. 2. Click the "Setting..." button> "Advanced Settings" window> 'Advanced' tab> 'Audio Codec' section where users need to select one bitrate smaller than your original FLAC bitrate. 3. Click "Apply to All" and OK button. 4. Finally click the "Convert" button to start and finish lowering the FLAC bitrate.
Other Functions of Avdshare Audio Converter
Except for reducing FLAC file size, this Avdshare Audio Converter can also reduce MP3 file size, WAV file size, AAC file size, WMA file size, AIFF file size, etc. Of course, Avdshare Audio Converter also supports to convert any audio format to another audio format for compatibly playing on your audio device, player or editing on your audio editing softwares. More surprisingly, this Avdshare Audio Converter can also split audio file, merge audio files, change audio volume, bitrate, sample rate, etc.