Legit FLAC tunes ?

by **nohitter151** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:40 am

danhackley wrote:It depends a bit on your setup; if you want the best quality playback, then there have been many credible reports that WAV sounds better. The reasons are not easy to understand as FLAC is supposedly lossless. However, this difference would only be noticeable on a high-end system and not on your typical hi-fi or computer music setup.

D

I'd like to see some evidence of that, because it's nonsense. FLAC equals WAV in terms of audio quality.

by **pmh** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:34 am

Responding to danhackley:
A common reason for using FLAC over WAV is to reduce bandwidth when sending to remote speakers such as when using UPNP. I have seen people having issues playing WAVs over slow links like WIFI that do not appear when the songs are compressed with either FLAC or MP3.

by **mrfart** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:33 am

boomkat.com sells flac files.
Also worth checking if the artist you're looking for is on http://bandcamp.com/

by **danhackley** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:05 am

I would recommend WAV above FLAC, also if you're ripping your own CDs. Sure, FLACs are almost half the size, but storage is so cheap nowadays that I don't think that's an issue. Programs such as Mediamonkey support metadata for WAV files. If you want the files on a portable player then Mediamonkey can convert them on the fly for you.

It depends a bit on your setup; if you want the best quality playback, then there have been many credible reports that WAV sounds better. The reasons are not easy to understand as FLAC is supposedly lossless. However, this difference would only be noticeable on a high-end system and not on your typical hi-fi or computer music setup.

D

by **Ternaugh** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:55 pm

Rhino Records has a number of recordings available in FLAC, for purchase here: http://www.rhino.com/index.php
Artists include many who were released on the old WEA labels.

by **nohitter151** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:28 pm

Absolutextasi wrote:Thankyou. So from your perspective, what would you suggest that I convert it to (lossy format) and why?

It depends how you'll be using the tracks. See: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47611&p=247380&hilit=ogg#p247380

by **Lowlander** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:16 pm

MP3 is the most widely adopted format so the least likely to be incompatible with a device or software.

by **Absolutextasi** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:05 pm

nohitter151 wrote:
Absolutextasi wrote:would WAV be the equivalent to FLAC? I mean it's nice that Flac is lossless, but once you convert it, it not loseless anymore right or do I just not understand the purpose of FLAC? I definitely downloaded a number of Flac files and they're incredible big, but they don't play. And I definitely wouldn't to keep them so I convert them. Once I convert them to 320 or 192 they are immediately half the size. Doesn't this mean they are no longer lossless? Someone please explain this to me because I'm getting a headache really fast and I feel like this is really important for me to know.

Thankyou. So from your perspective, what would you suggest that I convert it to (lossy format) and why?

Mikey

Yes, FLAC is a lossless audio format, so it's equivalent to WAV files. Its advantages over WAV audio is that FLAC files are compressed so they are usually about half the file size of an equivalent wav file while offering the exact same audio quality. It also has better, more standardized metadata (with vorbis comments). If you convert them to a lossy format like mp3, wma, m4a, ogg, etc. then yes, they are no longer lossless.

by **nohitter151** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:02 pm

Absolutextasi wrote:would WAV be the equivalent to FLAC? I mean it's nice that Flac is lossless, but once you convert it, it not loseless anymore right or do I just not understand the purpose of FLAC? I definitely downloaded a number of Flac files and they're incredible big, but they don't play. And I definitely wouldn't to keep them so I convert them. Once I convert them to 320 or 192 they are immediately half the size. Doesn't this mean they are no longer lossless? Someone please explain this to me because I'm getting a headache really fast and I feel like this is really important for me to know.

Thanks,

Mikey

Yes, FLAC is a lossless audio format, so it's equivalent to WAV files. Its advantages over WAV audio is that FLAC files are compressed so they are usually about half the file size of an equivalent wav file while offering the exact same audio quality. It also has better, more standardized metadata (with vorbis comments). If you convert them to a lossy format like mp3, wma, m4a, ogg, etc. then yes, they are no longer lossless.

by **Absolutextasi** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:58 pm

would WAV be the equivalent to FLAC? I mean it's nice that Flac is lossless, but once you convert it, it not loseless anymore right or do I just not understand the purpose of FLAC? I definitely downloaded a number of Flac files and they're incredible big, but they don't play. And I definitely wouldn't to keep them so I convert them. Once I convert them to 320 or 192 they are immediately half the size. Doesn't this mean they are no longer lossless? Someone please explain this to me because I'm getting a headache really fast and I feel like this is really important for me to know.

Thanks,

Mikey

by **Rednroll** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:04 am

I was talking about this the other day with my friend. The irony in all this is that it's actually easier and in most cases a better service to obtain music illegally than it is to go through the legal routes. You can find more availability of what you're looking for, it's usually in a higher quality audio format like Flac as discussed in this thread, and it takes less time to download due to the ability to download from multiple storage locations simultaneously. Not only are the illegal avenues winning on price.....but quality, convenience, and download speed. That's just crazy. :lol:

by **Danelaw** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:18 am

Heya..

if you surf around http://www.computeraudiophile.com/ you will find ref. to lotsa stores with flac files,( and alot of free tunes offered) and btw. its actually often an advantage to get flac files from the net over ripping your own ines, because CD's are only 16 bit, and alot of the audiophile online stores offer 24 bit flac files. A great examlpe when speaking of classic rock, is the great new beatles remastered collection, its also avalible in a USB key with 24Bit files.

http://www.naimlabel.com/ is one store that offers high quality music i can think of, but there is gennerally an pverweight of jazz og classic on these stores tho..

by **bgibbard** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:39 am

https://www.hdtracks.com/

Unfortunately I've never been able to use it because it is only available in the U.S.

by **bgriffis** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:19 pm

Personally I think flac is the best format to rip your digital music. It's lossless, so you have not altered the music at all, yet you cut the file size approximately in half. Flac is also streamable (e.g. for products like Logitech Squeezebox). MediaMonkey has some really great features to compliment flac. For example, let's say you use MM to sync your music to your mp3 player, but your mp3 player doesn't support flac (most don't, nor would you want to use it regardless because you'd run out of space too quickly). MM has capability to do on-the-fly transcoding of your flac music to mp3 as it loads it to the mp3 player.

by **m00nd0g** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:47 pm

Samuel_LB wrote:
m00nd0g wrote:So if I use my bought CD's I can convert it to FLAC ?

Sure! Among other format types.

Sounds interesting , which is the best for CD's ?

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