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Title: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 16, 2006, 10:01:10 PM OK, I was always really dismissive of audiophiles and the MP3 v FLAC debate, but goddamn, I just tried a CD in both and FLAC is sooooooooooo much better.
Bye bye mp3 (and HD space). Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Backslash on June 16, 2006, 10:02:26 PM of course FLAC is better. lossless audio!
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: EFISH on June 16, 2006, 10:03:27 PM what about wav?
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 16, 2006, 10:08:19 PM FLAC is basically a losslessly compressed WAV right?
Im going through all my fav CDs and getting them up in FLAC right now. Hot damn! Starting with Whos Next. Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: EFISH on June 16, 2006, 10:10:33 PM i just get my stuff in wav if i can because it goes into iTunes whicch is wehre i keep my stuff..
but on my backup hardrvie most of the stuff is in FLAC Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 16, 2006, 10:19:02 PM I got too many CDs to keep all my stuff in WAV. On my iTunes Ive got about 6000 songs from CDs alone.
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Genesis on June 16, 2006, 11:47:29 PM What's the big deal? I still prefer MP3s. Try encoding a track at 320kbps VBR and tell me the difference between that and FLAC. FLAC although being 'lossless' is about 10 times the size of the equivalent MP3.
People use FLAC only for the principle of the thing. Being 'lossless', they believe that they have preserved the original data in some way. I mean, what's the point of carrying all that data, if ur ears can't hear it anyway? ::) Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 16, 2006, 11:58:48 PM What's the big deal? I still prefer MP3s. Try encoding a track at 320kbps VBR and tell me the difference between that and FLAC. FLAC although being 'lossless' is about 10 times the size of the equivalent MP3. People use FLAC only for the principle of the thing. Being 'lossless', they believe that they have preserved the original data in some way. I mean, what's the point of carrying all that data, if ur ears can't hear it anyway? ::) At that bitrate its more like twice the size. Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Genesis on June 17, 2006, 12:32:07 AM At that bitrate its more like twice the size. Here's a comparison:- 5.11 minute track: MP3 (CD Quality VBR) - 7.03 MB Flac (High Quality, 16bit) - 35.9 MB You decide. Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: mrlee on June 17, 2006, 08:21:29 AM FLAC is good, but it only works with either winamp or realmedia with the plug ins installed. windows media or itunes dont have those plug ins do they?
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 17, 2006, 11:07:25 AM FLAC is good, but it only works with either winamp or realmedia with the plug ins installed. windows media or itunes dont have those plug ins do they? They have one for windows media but not iTunes I think. Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Walk on June 17, 2006, 02:48:37 PM In this age of 400 Gb drives, I'm surprised people still use mp3 for thier personal backups. It's really only useful for piracy due to bandwidth issues of the huge FLAC files. :smoking: Even then, ogg is better, but not seen much.
If you can't hear the difference, there are a few possibilities to examine. First, you might have hearing damage or are simply old. Second, you might have a cheap ass sound system (which makes sense, since it goes along with a cheap ass hard drive ;)). Third, you might be a metalhead who doesn't care about fidelity; hell, black metal is supposed to sound like shit. Of course, reason 3 is often a result of reason 1. :-\ Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: EFISH on June 17, 2006, 02:50:23 PM why was my replay about converting stuff deleted?
:rant: Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Genesis on June 17, 2006, 02:53:59 PM In this age of 400 Gb drives, I'm surprised people still use mp3 for thier personal backups. It's really only useful for piracy due to bandwidth issues of the huge FLAC files. :smoking: Even then, ogg is better, but not seen much. That's the whole point: BANDWIDTH. Downloading FLAC files is a real chore. I'm not saying there's no audio quality difference. What I meant was the quality/file size ratio just doesn't justify the use of FLAC. Not everybody has a 2mbps leased DSL connection, you know... Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Walk on June 17, 2006, 03:01:12 PM Well, for legal backups, FLAC is much better.
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Genesis on June 17, 2006, 03:06:10 PM Well, for legal backups, FLAC is much better. Sure. What do u think about the trading community's insistence on using FLAC? Like, um, "I'll trade only in FLAC, coz u know, like, I don't want to lose any precious bits of my favorite band..." ::) Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Mandy. on June 18, 2006, 07:14:56 AM Okay, so I've just downloaded a .flac file from Appetite for Collection... What do I use to open it?
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Tomorrows on June 18, 2006, 08:44:48 AM Download plugins from the section at the bottom of this page (http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html). I was able to plac FLAC in winamp without downloading any plugins though.
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: Mandy. on June 18, 2006, 12:19:34 PM Thank you! : ok:
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: BLS-Pride on June 18, 2006, 12:25:19 PM Im new to all this shit.. Now. these flac files. I have heard them and they are pretty good.. Where do you find them? Torrents or are you converting your own media to flac and if so what program is needed? Any help would be awesome.
Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: EFISH on June 18, 2006, 12:34:03 PM supose you have a mp3 file..
converting an mp3 to a flac wont make it better quality.. but when someone has an original recording of a show.. people like it to be uploaded to flacs because that is the best quality. honestly, it doenst really matter that much... if you want something that is almost as good as flac but takes up 10 times less room.. then wehn you download a flac, convert it to mp3. If you are planning on having a lot of bootlegs in flac, you should get an external hardrive because otehrwise your disk space will dissapear very quickly. ;) If you want a good program that converts files from flac to mp3s and wavs then go to download.com and search for dB power amp. thats what i use, help alot. :P Title: Re: FLAC has converted me ... Post by: gmGnR on June 19, 2006, 02:19:16 PM supose you have a mp3 file.. converting an mp3 to a flac wont make it better quality.. but when someone has an original recording of a show.. people like it to be uploaded to flacs because that is the best quality. honestly, it doenst really matter that much... if you want something that is almost as good as flac but takes up 10 times less room.. then wehn you download a flac, convert it to mp3. If you are planning on having a lot of bootlegs in flac, you should get an external hardrive because otehrwise your disk space will dissapear very quickly.? ;) If you want a good program that converts files from? flac to mp3s and wavs then go to download.com and search for dB power amp. thats what i use, help alot.? :P I've started to burn my flac files on DVDs, storing 4+g on each one. Indeed, my hard drive is not big enough to keep all of them there. |