FLAC codec

[delanvital]

Anyone know some details about this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

[Wordan]

http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

A comparason page

I think it is among the most popular lossless audio codecs. It's associated with Xiph.Org where ogg vorbis came from.
Afraid that is all I can offer lol, but am interested my self in what others have to say about it.

[Cadaver]

I'm in the process of ripping all my CDs to both FLAC tracks, and lower bitrate MP3s.

I've got one of these connected to my hi-fi, which accepts FLAC natively and is used to stream music from my PC.  Quality is actually better than my ageing Marantz CD player, as the ripping app (I'm using EAC) ensures very accurate rips, and the Squeezebox has good quality DACs onboard.

AFAIK it's the best lossless format out there for streaming music, it supports gapless playback so you don't get those pauses between tracks like you do with MP3. Not the best though if archiving your collection, where smallest file size is what you'd be after.

EDIT: Fixed URL.

[delanvital]

Info seems good! I will give the codec a go, especially since a plugin for WinAmp already exists  

[suicidal_monkey]

Originally posted by Cadaver@Jun 15 2006, 07:37 AM
ripping app (I'm using EAC)

What's EAC? I usually use CDEX-->lame/mp3 and iTunes-->mp4/AAC

(edit - is it this one? http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/ )

some form of lossless compression would be nice though for storage purposes ... that way when you need your music in another format it's already on the PC and you don't have to spend 3 weeks swapping CDs in the tray whilst killing your DVD-rom...

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by suicidal_monkey@Jun 15 2006, 10:13 AM
What's EAC? I usually use CDEX-->lame/mp3 and iTunes-->mp4/AAC

(edit - is it this one?

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That's the one.  Not the fastest ripper out there, but arguably the best in terms of accuracy of results.  It's raved about on the Hydrogen Audio forums.