What you do with your FLAC files

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.

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.

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.

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

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Originally Posted by AugustoP

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

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Well said :lol:

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Originally Posted by Tokeman

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

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Same here :yup:

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Try foobar2000.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by AugustoP

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

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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.