Portable FLAC Frontend

Portable FLAC Frontend is a graphical user interface that helps you encode and decode audio files.

This software utility is also the portable counterpart of FLAC Frontend, meaning it does not require installation. This enables you to copy the program files to any location on the hard drive and even to a portable storage device, such as a USB flash drive, in order to run the app from any computer that you have access to. In addition to that, the Windows registry and Start menu/screen are not going to get updated with new entries.

This tool lets you convert WAV, OGG, OGA, AIFF, RAW and W64 to the FLAC format. The “drag and drop” feature is incorporated, meaning that organizing files is going to be much easier for the user. There is no limit to the number of songs they can upload to the program and convert, all in one sitting.

The main window includes all the available settings. You can change the level of encoding, verify the file after the process is over and calculate ReplayGain.

There are also some more general options that can be tinkered with, such as selecting the output folder, deleting input files, keeping foreign metadata and creating/reading as OGG-FLAC.

By clicking on the “Test for Errors”, this program opens up a command window in which all detected errors are displayed. However, you should know it is possible to decode through glitches.

In conclusion, Portable FLAC Frontend is an efficient piece of software which can be used by both novice and advanced users, in order to create FLAC files. Nonetheless, it loses a few points because it does not support MP3 files.