SRL Archive - Technology

I was looking for a free (or technically paid :garfield:), lightweight audio converter to convert a few hundred songs from one format to another (preferably with lossless or nearly lossless quality).

I did some googling and found some but they all appeared to be full of bloat and crapware so I was wondering if any of you had suggestions for programs.

I would imagine I would be able to do it with Audacity, but I have no clue how and will look a bit later.

dBpoweramp is good but not exactly free. There is a trial though.

I use Freemake Video Converter to convert videos. It's really simple and does a good job. There is an audio converter under the same name. I haven't tried it but you could check it out. http://www.freemake.com/free_audio_converter/

From: Brandon
dBpoweramp is good but not exactly free. There is a trial though.

I tried this and it did 100 songs in about 8 minutes and copied all the names and such, worked wonders.

From: Wetish
I use Freemake Video Converter to convert videos. It's really simple and does a good job. There is an audio converter under the same name. I haven't tried it but you could check it out. http://www.freemake.com/free_audio_converter/

i will try this for the next 100 and see how it goes!

E:Thanks both of you, dBpoweramp works much faster than Freemake, however it is indeed a paid service. It took about 24 minutes with Freemake versus 8 minutes with poweramp, but they both functioned as intended! Poweramp uses multithreading, while freemake only uses a single core. (there was only a 20mb difference in the size of the two folders of 100 songs).