OK, I downloaded a FLAC file and have no idea how to convert this to mp3 so it can be played.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Convert with this Utility:

http://rapidshare.com/files/297951517/r ... ___key.rar


Cheers.

Thanks for your help. I figured it out.
However, the converter I used made the entire album one long mp3 instead of seperate tracks.
Weird.

I sugest Media Coder:

http://www.mediacoderhq.com/download.htm

If the FLAC is one file then the mp3 will also be one file. It could be the person created the FLAC without breaking each individual track into individual FLAC files. I remember downloading one such file on anyswing (the whole album was one FLAC).

If you want individual files for individual tracks, then you will have to edit the file (preferably the FLAC, since it is lossless, but I supposed you could also do the mp3) to create separate tracks. That is a whole other process, which I won't get into, unless you really want to know. However, if anyone knows of a program that can determine the silent sections and "automatically" create the tracks, please let me know. It would save some work from the manual process of splitting out tracks.

One one hand, the .flac file might be coming with a .cue file that you can use for splitting. Basically, a .flac is a lossless (!) audio format like .mp3 or .wav
It can be one file per track, or one file for a whole album, just as with .mp3 or .wav.
.cue files are the content sheets of a CD, basically they'll give you the track lengths and titles.
There are tools such as mp3splt and shntool that can split an mp3 (or flac, wav, ...) according to a cue sheet.
It's better to split at the .flac level instead of the .mp3 level, since even lossless splitting of .mp3 can result in audio artefacts at the beginning and end of each track due to the way mp3 compression works.
If all your players support Ogg Vorbis (iTunes and iPods unfortunately still don't), it's also usually more convenient to convert .flac to .ogg: the official ogg vorbis encoder, oggenc, can read flac and it will keep all the metadata such as artists, titles, ...; these formats are very compatible.