Legit FLAC tunes ?

[m00nd0g]

Hi ... Does anyone know where I can purchase legit FLAC classic rock tunes ?

Thanks

[Samuel_LB]

FLAC? Not really. Other format yes (MP3's, AAC's) but not FLAC's.<
Flac files are overall too big to download. Wont it be better to buy CD's and rip them to flac yourself?
...Of course you can always illegally download them for free from torrent sites...

[m00nd0g]

Thanks for responding . I'm just learning and want to do it legit . So if I use my bought CD's I can convert it to FLAC ? What format are CD's in the first place anyway ?

Thanks

[Samuel_LB]

So if I use my bought CD's I can convert it to FLAC ?

Sure! Among other format types.

Audio CDs contain about 800 MB of raw, uncompressed data, in fixed format: 44,100 samples per second (44.1 KHz).
It's equivalent to a big WAV file.

[m00nd0g]

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 ?

[bgriffis]

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.

[bgibbard]

https://www.hdtracks.com/

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

[Danelaw]

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..

[Rednroll]

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.

[Absolutextasi]

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

[nohitter151]

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.

[Absolutextasi]

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.

[Lowlander]

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

[nohitter151]

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

[Ternaugh]

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.