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Title: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Bert on August 31, 2007, 12:00:14 PM I was wondering how you keep the FLAC-quality when burning FLACs to CD. I have a vast amount of FLAC files on my hard drive, and I listen to them regularly, but I know not much about this file format. My HD is getting full and I'd like to get rid of these files, so I'm intending on burning them.
I heard something you have to convert them to WAV or whatever ... how do you guys do this ? Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: MJ23 on August 31, 2007, 12:09:02 PM Burn them with Nero, maybe an additional plug-in is needed, and it's fine.
That's how I do it. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: estebanf on August 31, 2007, 12:42:53 PM Burn them with Nero, maybe an additional plug-in is needed, and it's fine. That's how I do it. Exactly. This is the plugin you need to install. Then Nero will automatically allow drag-n-dropping FLAC files to directly make CD-DA's without converting them to WAV before. http://download.yousendit.com/6A5631B75E8C917A Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: zombux on August 31, 2007, 01:44:59 PM keep them in FLAC, and burn them on DVDR, it's even better than converting to Audio CD. just burn it as Data DVD :)
Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: MJ23 on August 31, 2007, 03:26:30 PM For storing them or listening to them on the computer it is the best way.
To listen to those things through an audio system or in a car, burning them to Audio CDs is the only way. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: estebanf on August 31, 2007, 03:33:07 PM Yes.
But what Zombux means is that the best way to STORE lossless files is burning them as data (and not making CD-DAs) Once you have the FLACs stored in data dvd-r, then you can make CD-DAs. But if your storing method is ONLY audio cds, then everytime you want to make another CDR or if you want to make a torrent, you'll need to RIP that CDR and a generation will be lost. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: MJ23 on August 31, 2007, 03:45:09 PM I understood it. I store all my FLACS on data-DVDs.
Only the gigs I want to hear somewhere else than on my computer surround system - those things I burn as Audio CDs. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: CaughtMeInaComa on August 31, 2007, 10:07:12 PM Since we are on the subject of "quality". lets say I have a CD-R and i want to save these songs onto my computer in order to upload as (high quality) mp3's, how would i do this and keep the file intact without losing quality or bitrate?
or is it possible at all? Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: MJ23 on September 01, 2007, 02:06:17 AM As soon as you transfer the songs from a CD to your HD and convert them to high quality mp3s, you have lost quality (if the source were lossless files).
In order to to get the files on your HD, you have to copy/paste them (if stored on a data cd) or rip them (if stored as an audio cd). There are several good programs for ripping audio cds to mp3/wav/flac. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Badapple89 on September 01, 2007, 10:45:00 AM This may be a stupid question but once i've downloaded the nero plug-in, what do i do with it then?
Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: MJ23 on September 01, 2007, 11:06:21 AM If you have downloaded the latest flac codec from here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/ then the plugin was installed automatically. Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Blackrose on September 01, 2007, 11:16:56 AM This may be a stupid question but once i've downloaded the nero plug-in, what do i do with it then? You need to place the "nxMyFLA.dll" in the nero plug-ins folder. On my XP-pro system the directory you need to place the dll in is "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins" While on the subject of plug-ins anyone got a monkey audio plug-in for Nero? Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Badapple89 on September 01, 2007, 11:19:38 AM Thanks, i've sorted it
Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: zombux on September 01, 2007, 11:24:40 AM While on the subject of plug-ins anyone got a monkey audio plug-in for Nero? check this http://www.monkeysaudio.com/smf/index.php?topic=1718.msg7587 Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: estebanf on September 01, 2007, 06:09:10 PM AUDIO PLUGINS FOR NERO MEGAPACK
Well, I just took the time to register and download all common audio plugins for Nero from BitBurners.com. Then I made a RAR file with the following plugins. You need to copy them all in your Program Files/Ahead/Nero/audio plugins folder 01) APE Monkeys Audio Lossless Compression (.ape) plugin for Nero. Based on Monkey's Audio SDK v3.99 02) SHN SoftSound Shorten Lossless Compression (.shn) plugin for Nero. Based on Etree.org Shorten v3.5.1. 03) AAC/MP4 AAC/MP4 Advanced Audio Coding plugin for Nero. Based on Audiocoding.com's libfaac v1.24 and libfaad v2.0 04) AC3 Dolby Digital AC3 plugin for Nero. May require Nero Wav Plugin replacement to support more than 2 audio channels. Based on FFMPEG ac3enc and Azid. 05) ASF/WMA ASF/WMA Microsoft Windows Media Audio 9 Lossy / Lossless plugin for Nero. Requires Windows Media Player 9 Series. Based on Windows Media Format 9 .. 06) FLAC FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) plugin for Nero. Based on Flac v1.1.0 07) PAC LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Compression, .pac) plugin for Nero. Based on LPAC Codec DLL v3.08 08) MPC MusePack (.mpc) plugin for Nero. Based on mppenc v1.14 and mppdec v1.95z6. 09) OFR OptimFROG Lossless Audio Coder (.ofr) plugin for Nero. Based on OptimFROG v4.509 10) OGG XIPH.org Ogg Vorbis plugin for Nero. Based on Ogg Vorbis Win32 SDK v1.0.1. 11) WV WavPack Hybrid Lossless Compression plugin for Nero. Based on WavPack 3.97. http://www.wavpack.com/ 12) RM/RA RealNetworks RealMedia/RealAudio plugin for Nero. Based on RealNetworks Helix Producer SDK. http://rapidshare.com/files/52754874/AUDIO-PLUGINS-FOR-NERO.rar feel free to use this link for your own message board Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Bert on September 18, 2007, 03:05:08 PM Alright, so as I understand it, there's no way I can burn FLAC files to CD and ripping them back onto my PC while them staying lossless ?
Title: Re: Keeping FLAC quality Post by: Back Off Bitch on September 18, 2007, 04:12:33 PM Yes, you can. Just burn them as Data... but you will only be able to open them on a computer, not a stereo or cd player...
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