RARBG really left a big hole in my heart.

I’ve degoogled my life as much as I can, but it’s almost impossible to completely ditch Google Maps, YouTube, and Android. So I’m not even sure I’ve done anything significant, because I assume they get pretty much everything from my phone.

I’d love to have everything in FLAC for preservation’s sake, but I’ve settled for Apple’s QAAC. Great quality, small size, universally supported.

I suggest you convert them to AAC with Apple’s excellent QAAC encoder instead. fre:ac can do it just fine once you add the encoder. Much better and more modern format than MP3, and still universally playable.