Thoughts? Anyone used these? Free Lossless Audio Codec...kinda big

1/17/2007 12:34:00 AM

huge for internet music snobs who trade music. they think its horrible that anyone downconverts into mp3's.

if you have the time to download 700mb+ sets go for it, otherwise stick with other formats

1/17/2007 12:58:44 AM

I'm not a big enough elitist asshole to hawk that shit
maybe next month

I've still got terabytes to burn

1/17/2007 1:05:35 AM

If you want to archive music on your PC without losing quality due to conversion and lossy encoding, it's the only way to go.

1/17/2007 1:22:17 AM

how bout as far as burning to a CD? if i burn some flac files to cd will i be able to tell any audio difference from mp3s on a good stereo or not really?

1/17/2007 1:25:09 AM

^^I don't know if that's true all the time tho'.

1/17/2007 1:48:55 AM

I ripped my entire cd collection with using .flac

The average CD goes down to around 300mB which is a nice savings.

^ This guy is clueless.

I can tell the difference in a full quality track (.flac, .wav, etc) and a ~128 mp3 on my pretty weak PC speakers. I can tell a difference in most material at ~192 on my better home system, but when it gets to ~256 and above, it depends on the original source for me to start detecting it with my equipment (which is admittedly, not great stuff).

I think if you are anal about it and want to keep the music exactly how you bought it, go with flac.

1/17/2007 8:35:23 AM

Quote :

"If you want to archive music on your PC without losing quality due to conversion and lossy encoding, it's the only way to go. "

for the most part thats correct. .shn's were popular (and still are in some circles), but for the most part, the trend is shifting more towards .flac

[Edited on January 17, 2007 at 8:39 AM. Reason : d]

1/17/2007 8:36:35 AM

Pretty easy here, take a CD, rip to flac, rip to mp3, listen to both versions, if you notice a difference and it matters go with flac, if you dont really care about small details and just want sound go with mp3, i can tell a huge difference on some stuff, not so much on other stuff.

1/17/2007 9:50:06 AM