Convert M4A to FLAC on a Mac

No upload, no browser tab, no account. Tangerine converts M4A to FLAC in the Finder itself, using the media frameworks already on your Mac.

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    Start dragging your M4A file out of its folder.

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    Hold ⌘. The wheel appears under your cursor, showing every format a M4A can become.

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    Move onto FLAC and let go. The new file lands beside the original, which is left untouched.

Try the wheel yourself

The homepage has a working demo of the same radial menu, with a desktop of files you can drag.

Open the demo

More than conversion

Holding ⌥⌘ instead swaps the wheel for tools that work on audio files:

Other M4A conversions