What you do with your FLAC files

[smellycat]

Play them on my High quality computer sound system.

Burn a few for the car cd.

But store them all (+ artwork) on external hard disks.

[Adman65]

I listen to it on my Sennheiser heaphones. I'm going to buy a headphone amp soon to replace my logitech z5500 system. The z5500 is damn good, but the headphones + amp will be so much better.

No point in downloading FLAC is you are going to convert it, unless that is the only format you can dl in. I would never convert flac to store it on my comp. The only time I would is if I wanted to make mp3 CD's/DVD's for a long trip.

[whitmar]

I usually burn them to a CD directly with Roxio or Nero. If they are 24/96 flacs I make a DVD-A with DiscWelder. I store them on the hard drive as flac, and play them directly with VLC player.

[Zaxx]

Get em...convert em to v0...send the flac files to the storage arrays for future burns or whatever.

[Ac3Dunk]

Funny thing is most of people who download flacs can't differentiate it from V0 or 192 kbit mp3 in a double blind test.

Well said

[ceasar]

but I listen to them, burn them, and keep them safe on my external for future use.

Same here

[Polarbear]

i burn them to cd, because my hifi system (cd-player) beats any computer. my only concern is, that nobody can exactly tell how long data on a cd will last.

[krunktastic]

I usually burn them to a CD directly with Roxio or Nero. If they are 24/96 flacs I make a DVD-A with DiscWelder. I store them on the hard drive as flac, and play them directly with VLC player.

Doesn't VLC compress the audio...defeating the whole purpose of FLAC?

Try foobar2000.

[Daniel]

i burn them to cd, because my hifi system (cd-player) beats any computer. my only concern is, that nobody can exactly tell how long data on a cd will last.

Longer than the average lifetime of a hdd in any case, so burning on discs can be a valuable data storage procedure.

You're right about another thing too: many computers lack the hardware quality to play lossless music back in a quality that is deserving for the format, take all those onboard music chips for example. Given the appropriate hardware, a computer based hifi system can be much more comfortable to use though and that's the large drawback of burning CD's and being limited to one album at a time. (And in the end it isn't all that expensive because it can be a multi-purpose system)

edit: VLC does what every media player capable of the FLAC format does: decoding it. It would be a pretty useless piece of software if it couldn't play audio back in the input format But I agree with krunktastic that other players are better suited for audio playback, not because of questionable quality but because they're better suited to handling playlists like the mentioned foobar2k.

[xxzzxx]

Funny thing is most of people who download flacs can't differentiate it from V0 or 192 kbit mp3 in a double blind test.

This is a pure nonsense, with the right sound equipment u will
definitely hear the difference, but i geuss u right when the
equipment is shitty.