Step 1: Provide your FLAC files using the button above or by toss and let go.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Fetch your converted AMR files.
FLAC to AMR Conversion FAQ
What bitrate does the AMR file end up at?
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A lossy AMR is encoded at 192 kbps by default. The Audio Quality setting also offers 320 kbps for the best quality and 128 kbps for a smaller file. A lossless AMR (WAV, FLAC) ignores the bitrate and keeps every sample.
How much quality do I lose converting FLAC to AMR?
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Some, and it is permanent — this is the one direction where information is genuinely thrown away. FLAC holds every sample exactly; AMR discards what a psychoacoustic model predicts you will not hear. At 192 kbps and above that prediction is good enough to be transparent on most material and most equipment. Keep the FLAC as your master, because you cannot get back to it from the AMR. FLAC uses linear prediction plus Rice coding to reach roughly 50-60% of the original size while decoding back to bit-identical PCM. AMR is a narrowband speech codec running between 4.75 and 12.2 kbps, modelling the human vocal tract rather than the full audio spectrum.
Will my track titles and album art survive the FLAC to AMR conversion?
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Not intact. FLAC carries a proper metadata block, but AMR has no standard place for artist, album, track number or cover art, so tags are dropped rather than mangled. Keep the FLAC as the tagged copy, or re-tag afterwards with a tool like Mp3tag or MusicBrainz Picard. AMR destroys music: its 8 kHz bandwidth removes everything above telephone frequencies, and no amount of re-encoding brings it back.
Why does music sound so poor in this conversion?
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Because one side of it is a speech codec rather than a music codec. It models the human vocal tract and discards everything outside telephone bandwidth, which is fine for a voice memo and destructive for anything with instruments in it. Converting away from it cannot restore the missing frequencies — they were never encoded in the first place. FLAC is still several times larger than a good lossy file, and Apple’s ecosystem only added support recently and grudgingly.
Will going from FLAC to AMR actually reduce my audio quality?
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If FLAC is lossy (MP3, AAC) and AMR is lossless (WAV, FLAC), the AMR is no better than the FLAC — you cannot recover information already discarded by the lossy FLAC codec. If FLAC is lossless and AMR is lossy, expect the AMR encoder to recompress; at 192 kbps the loss is imperceptible to most ears.
Can I batch-convert hundreds of FLAC files into AMR?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
Can I normalize loudness in the FLAC to AMR step?
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Not in this step. The converter has no loudness setting and leaves the level as it is. To even out the volume, run the finished AMR through a Normalize tool on this site.
Will the AMR play on my car stereo / iPod / Sonos / Bluetooth speaker?
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MP3 plays almost everywhere. AAC plays on Apple devices, most Android phones and Sonos. FLAC plays on Sonos and Android but not on older iPods, and WAV plays on nearly everything but makes large files. There are no device presets on this page, so choose the target format your player supports. AMR makes voice recordings absurdly small — an hour of speech fits in a few megabytes — and it is what many phones still record calls in.
Is my FLAC file private during conversion?
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Yes. Uploaded FLAC files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted AMR are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
