Keeping FLAC quality

[Bert]

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 ?

[MJ23]

Burn them with Nero, maybe an additional plug-in is needed, and it's fine.
That's how I do it.

[estebanf]

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

[zombux]

keep them in FLAC, and burn them on DVDR, it's even better than converting to Audio CD. just burn it as Data DVD

[MJ23]

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.

[estebanf]

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.

[MJ23]

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.

[CaughtMeInaComa]

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?

[MJ23]

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.

[Badapple89]

This may be a stupid question but once i've downloaded the nero plug-in, what do i do with it then?

[MJ23]

If you have downloaded the latest flac codec from here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
then the plugin was installed automatically.

[Blackrose]

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?

[Badapple89]

Thanks, i've sorted it

[zombux]

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

[estebanf]

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

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[Bert]

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 ?

[Back Off Bitch]

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...