I always see files and music in FLAC form on the internet, question is in the title.
Google? :/
FLAC is a codec that preserves 100% sound quality. Any player like MediaMonkey, Songbird, Winamp, etc. will play it, but not Windows Media Player.
Uh, what?. Flac?.. A Codec, open with Winamp.
i just got lost in Above's avatar
Ignore electrodeath's avatar, read his post, add VLC to list of supporting media players, questions answered.
[QUOTE=ELectrodeath;21846700]FLAC is a codec that preserves 100% sound quality. Any player like MediaMonkey, Songbird, Winamp, etc. will play it, but not Windows Media Player.[/QUOTE]
Windows Media Player plays it just fine. DirectShow yo.
[url]http://xiph.org/downloads[/url]
[QUOTE=Inacio;21847062]Daft Punk's Alive 2007 in FLAC is a religious experience, specially if you have some decent speakers/headphones.[/QUOTE]
Listen to this man, he speaks the truth
[QUOTE=Inacio;21847062]This.
It's pretty much the best format there is.
Daft Punk's Alive 2007 in FLAC is a religious experience, specially if you have some decent speakers/headphones.[/QUOTE]
Daft Punk + FLAC = EPICNESS
Sounds awesome, I'll give it a go
Be prepared for massive files.
[QUOTE=ELectrodeath;21846700]FLAC is a codec that preserves 100% sound quality. Any player like MediaMonkey, Songbird, Winamp, etc. will play it, but not Windows Media Player.[/QUOTE]
Your avatar rocks!
But yeah, like everyone else said.
[QUOTE=Inacio;21848270]Eargasms. When you listen to something so awesome you feel the chills[/QUOTE]
File size is the tradeoff for eargasms with FLAC files.
VLC Media Player is a great one for playing pretty much anything.
You're a soda you don't need to worry about audio codecs.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;21848539]File size is the tradeoff for eargasms with FLAC files.[/QUOTE]
Dark Side of the Moon in MP3 at 320kbs is 98.5 MB.
In FLAC it is 477MB.
So about 5 times the size. As far as I go, I have two terabytes of hard drive space, I could care less about file size.
Any jailbrake apps that can can play flac on a iPhone? Oh and techno plus flac makes god
Okay, setup dedicated 40gb FLAC drive.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_tUCnmry4[/media]
Good comparison of FLAC and MP3.
I think I will be listening to more flac songs from now on, that is a pretty big diffrence between the clarity and quality of the two.
My mp3's don't sound anywhere near as shitty as the one in that video.
You won't hear a difference between 320 kbps MP3 and FLAC (stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec), which is up to and beyond 1000 kbps. If you have nice audio equipment, like a great sound card (I use X-Fi Fatal1ty Champion) that is hooked up to your home theater receiver via digital (like a fiber optic cable, that's how I have mine set up), and then have some nice Infinity speakers hooked up to that, well, then you will hear a difference.
As for what program to use, I use Foobar with the kernel mixer bypass so it sounds much nicer.
[QUOTE=sgtdist;21852347]You won't hear a difference between 320 kbps MP3 and FLAC (stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec), which is up to and beyond 1000 kbps. If you have nice audio equipment, like a great sound card (I use X-Fi Fatal1ty Champion) that is hooked up to your home theater receiver via digital (like a fiber optic cable, that's how I have mine set up), and then have some nice Infinity speakers hooked up to that, well, then you will hear a difference.[/QUOTE]
I have all of those things.
Some nice headphones come in handy too. Bare-minimum are some Audio Technica A700's.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;21852317]My mp3's don't sound anywhere near as shitty as the one in that video.[/QUOTE]
They do, you just don't realise it because you're not comparing it to a FLAC.
FLAC is what everyone should be using because its the best. And use Foobar2000 to play it.
[QUOTE=Aurora93;21851474][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_tUCnmry4[/media]
Good comparison of FLAC and MP3.[/QUOTE]
I just took that sample in the video and recorded it in wav, and then compressed it MP3 format at 256 kbps. Then I compared it to the video. Hardly any difference whatsoever. It definitely didn't sound as shitty as the mp3 in the video.
Flac is stupid. Unless you're a sound technician or own the world's most expensive sound equipment, then I doubt you'll ever hear the difference between Flac and 320 kbps-MP3. Is it really worth four times the space?
Besides, Flac is only truly lossless when it comes to digital data. For example, you can take a CD and store it in Flac and it will be 100 % identical. But this is because a CD is [I]already [/I]compressed since it is digital. You can never digitally record an actual instrument playing losslessly. So vinyl still has better quality. However, vinyl records are big and unpractical so this loss in quality is overlooked to most. Same thing with Flac.
Even thought it's ED, this article sums it up pretty well:
[url]http://encyclopediadramatica.com/FLAC[/url]
[QUOTE=City Chicken;21852665]FLAC is what everyone should be using because its the best. And use Foobar2000 to play it.[/QUOTE]
Vinyl records are better. Or you could just buy CDs.
You obviously don't understand the point in compressing data.
V0 VBR mp3 is what I download. CBR is for dummies.
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;21853402]I just took that sample in the video and recorded it in wav, and then compressed it MP3 format at 256 kbps. Then I compared it to the video. Hardly any difference whatsoever. It definitely didn't sound as shitty as the mp3 in the video.
Flac is stupid. Unless you're a sound technician or own the world's most expensive sound equipment, then I doubt you'll ever hear the difference between Flac and 320 kbps-MP3. Is it really worth four times the space?
Besides, Flac is only truly lossless when it comes to digital data. For example, you can take a CD and store it in Flac and it will be 100 % identical. But this is because a CD is [I]already [/I]compressed since it is digital. You can never digitally record an actual instrument playing losslessly. So vinyl still has better quality. However, vinyl records are big and unpractical so this loss in quality is overlooked to most. Same thing with Flac.
Vinyl records are better. Or you could just buy CDs.
You obviously don't understand the point in compressing data.[/QUOTE]
interesting, learned something new today..
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;21852317]My mp3's don't sound anywhere near as shitty as the one in that video.[/QUOTE]
Actually, due to YouTube fucking with quality, your MP3's will actually sound like the FLACs in the video, only meaning that real FLACs beat the crap out of MP3.
I'd prefer not to go through the trouble of DLing large FLAC files. I'm not an audiophile, and while extra quality over MP3s is nice, I don't really want it.
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;21853402]
Vinyl records are better. Or you could just buy CDs.
You obviously don't understand the point in compressing data.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Vinyl is better but I mean FLAC is the best in the digital spectrum of audio. FLAC is pretty impractical but hard drives are getting so large we should start switching to larger formats that keep more quality and leave what the artist intended audiences to hear. Even MP3s that are in 320 compress songs so much that the EQ often changes. I do understand the point in compressing data, but its not 2003 anymore so we don't have to use shit formats like MP3 and compress everything for it to fit on small hard drives, and CD's.
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