i was on a audiophile forum researching on firmware for ipods when i came across this nifty firmware called rockbox. You can find it at rockbox.org. anyways, i was just tweaking with it and and talking to my buddy online when he said now i can use FLAC format music. Now i have never heard of this but damn when i got a FLAC song, the quality is incredible....anyways, just wanted to share with you guys about this amazing format. the songs will be huge, like 30 megs per song, but the quality is orgasm in the ears.
reminds me of a family guy episode..... <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zk8CGPsDNeM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zk8CGPsDNeM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ha0gW2mXAQ"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ha0gW2mXAQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> the opal ring crusade! FLAC is awesome btw
well duh, FLAC is a lossless audio format the major drawback therefore is the huge file sizes, as you noticed yourself. I mean you could encode MP3s at 320 constant bitrate with the LAME codec, and I seriously bet you couldn't tell the difference. problem is both files take up too much space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular file format for audio data compression. It does not remove any information from the audio stream and is suitable both for everyday playback and audio archival. The FLAC format is currently well supported by many software projects and hardware support is growing. FLAC is for efficient packing of audio data, unlike general lossless algorithms such as ZIP and gzip. While ZIP may compress a CD-quality audio file by 10–20%, FLAC achieves compression rates of 30–50%.
you need a program to encode your file into that format. If your interested, I have a program that does that. May I suggest OGG vorbis? File size is smaller than FLAC but really kicks mp3's ass in all channels/freqs
since it's a lossless format, flac takes up a great deal more memory.... but yes, the quality is great. most shows i d/l are flac. or shn.
FLAC > SHN >>> AAC > mp3 FLAC's best for trading concert bootlegs - lossless quality, but compressed and digitized to use less discs and avoid the errors that accumulate with ripping/burning from audio. Evan
awesome...and what program would that be? yeah i'm familiar with ogg formatted audio and yes it blows away mp3s. thanks!
