Converting FLAC audio to Mp4 or mp3.. for my ipod.. with minimun quality loss

[TheGizmo]

Any ideas? Itunes won't take FLAC files directly so I have to convert them to something. I was thinking either Apple Lossless (although this made the file size even bigger), then I tried AIFF (also made file size even bigger).. lastly I tried to convert to mp3 (320 kbps) and that reduced the size 66% which was nice so I can fit more onto my iPhone 3Gs.. I usually use it for output into a 5.1 surround sound system.. so I'd like to lose as minimal quality as possible yet retain the quality of the FLAC.. or as close as can be anyway.

What do you guru's advise? Thank you so much.

~Gizmo

 

[Ns1]

Funny I posted basically this earlier...

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2033415

 

[umrigar]

http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

 

[Ns1]

http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

reps

 

[silverpig]

I just use XLD to convert to alac, then to compressed m4a for my iPod.

 

[keeleysam]

http://sbooth.org/Max/

I use this. No command line monkeying around, and it reads and writes pretty much everything. I use it to go from FLAC to 320kbit AAC for my iPods.