Something not a lot of people know, but Foobar can convert audio from one format to another, this is a quick video showing how easy it is.
Easy steps:
Right click on your audio file(s), hover over Convert, on the menu that pops up, click the ellipses
A new window will pop up
Click on Output Format, pick the file format you want to convert to
Destination, you can either tell it a folder, or have it ask you
Processing is completely optional, this lets you do a myriad of things, such as remove silence at the end of the audio file, or convert 5.1 to stereo, or visa versa
You can save this as a preset, and then click convert, you will be shown a progress bar.
And done, enjoy guys.
I love Foobar; I wish it were native to Linux, and didn't require Wine, though.
I quite agree, I'm stuck to Windows due to Adobe apps. Photoshop runs ok under Wine, but Premiere seems to be weird, and AFX just has massive issues with it. I have given a shot to programs available natively under Linux, but they just seem to be missing things, it's that and I've been using AFX for over a decade now, and Premiere even longer.
Maybe one day, we'll get Adobe support in the Linux-sphere, but I doubt it. I only mess around with Photoshop, now, but am getting deeper and deeper into it, sinking my anchor in Windows even deeper. Sigh...
I literally just converted two albums to FLAC using Foobar2000 an hour ago xD
I downloaded LAME but there isn't a .exe file in the rar archive I got...
***NVM 5 minutes on Google and I found the problem...awesome video Maks