Convert MP2 to FLAC — Free Online Converter

Converting MP2 to FLAC decodes broadcast MPEG Audio Layer 2 and stores the resulting PCM in a lossless compressed format. FLAC provides 40-60% compression over raw PCM while guaranteeing bit-perfect reconstruction of the decoded broadcast audio.

For broadcast archivists, this conversion captures the maximum quality recoverable from MP2 streams — DAB recordings, DVB audio, and DVD-Video soundtracks — in an efficient, well-documented, open-source format suitable for long-term preservation.

Broadcast archives require formats that preserve maximum quality while being storage-efficient and future-proof. FLAC meets all these criteria — it is lossless, open-source (no licensing risk), widely supported, and uses 40-60% less storage than uncompressed WAV.

FLAC from MP2 serves as a decode-once master archive. Rather than re-decoding MP2 every time the audio is needed, the FLAC captures the decoded output once. Any future format conversion can work from the FLAC without touching the original MP2 stream.