Yo anyone knows what a FLAC file is?

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Cabana_Da_Don
Cabana_Da_Don Members Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2010 in IllTek
What's a FLAC file?Is it larger than an mp3 and wav?
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  • fiat_money
    fiat_money Members Posts: 16,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Free Lossless Audio Codec.

    It's the only format of music I listen to, ? is high-quality. A FLAC song is usually 20-30MB.

    Audiophile approved.icon14.gificon14.gif
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  • grumpy_new_yorker
    grumpy_new_yorker Members Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    if you make cd's from the ? you download, its the way to go.

    wav. quality + no spaces between the tracks = win

    just so you know most mp3 players do not support the format and you need a plug in most of the time for you burning software to make cd's from them.
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  • Cabana_Da_Don
    Cabana_Da_Don Members Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I get it good looks.more info on it i appreciate it.
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  • Whatcha wearing?
    Whatcha wearing? Members Posts: 350 ✭
    edited April 2010
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    Why don't people use google instead of making a thread about ? ?
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  • Tupacfan
    Tupacfan Members, Moderators Posts: 2,428 Regulator
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    I wondering about this too!


    I couldn't understand it.. neways now I know. Thnx.
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  • Cabana_Da_Don
    Cabana_Da_Don Members Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    whatcha wearing? wrote: »
    why don't people use google instead of making a thread about ? ?

    because other people can learn from it.look at the post above me.nicca.
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  • Whatcha wearing?
    Whatcha wearing? Members Posts: 350 ✭
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    Cabana_Da_Don wrote: »
    because other people can learn from it.look at the post above me.nicca.

    other people should learn to use google or find another source. Dont see the point of asking questions when you could easily figure out the answer on your own.
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  • Cabana_Da_Don
    Cabana_Da_Don Members Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Whatcha wearing? wrote: »
    other people should learn to use google or find another source. Dont see the point of asking questions when you could easily figure out the answer on your own.

    I rather depend on other people than google.
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  • Tupacfan
    Tupacfan Members, Moderators Posts: 2,428 Regulator
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    Whatcha wearing? wrote: »
    other people should learn to use google or find another source. Dont see the point of asking questions when you could easily figure out the answer on your own.

    well ? , it don't hurt to ask either right..

    Anybody can ask whatever they want..


    Ya'll act like ya'll regulate this ? ..
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  • fiat_money
    fiat_money Members Posts: 16,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Word to fiat_money:
    fiat_money wrote: »
    Word, I don't even listen to compressed audio files. Each of my songs are ~30 megabytes.

    FLAC's>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MP3's
    fiat_money wrote: »
    Klipsch Image S4 IEM's + FLAC playing digital audio player with excellent sound quality=GOAT

    LOL @ MP3's

    FLAC>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MP3's
    fiat_money wrote: »
    And a digital audio player with native FLAC support.

    LOL @ Spending more than $100 on an MP3 player.
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  • e$money$
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    Basically it is a lossless file. You know how mp3 get compressed but WAVs don't, well FLAC is like a WAV only sightly compress to be smaller than a WAV w/o losing the quality like with an mp3. Having it is a trade off....it takes more space on your hd but you get better quality, and some ppl don't even notice the quality difference but it's there.

    There are other lossless formats like WAV and I know apple has one as well, I forget what the format is though. Not all players (like itunes) support it. I know foobar2000 and winamp can play it.
    BIGRuss wrote: »
    wav. quality + no spaces between the tracks = win

    How so? Space b/t tracks are determined by the info embedded in each track not necessarily the format that it is in.
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  • grumpy_new_yorker
    grumpy_new_yorker Members Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    it really doesnt matter. the human ear cannot tell the difference between 320kbps mp3's and wav files unless your system is insane. the only thing that sucks about mp3 format is the gap between the tracks. its 2010, you think they would fix that now. sony's atrac format had that worked out 10 years ago.
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