What you do with your FLAC files

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Originally Posted by Daniel

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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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you are right about the comfort factor. i sometimes listen to radio shows, dj mixes or mp3/flac playlists with my mac hooked up to my hifi system.

but when it comes to sound no computer can beat my cambridge audio azur 840c.

and when i want the real thing soundwise i listen to the good old vinyl - no risk of losing data and the best sound that one can imagine.

I like to listen to FLAC on my set of 2 speakers. They are both 2" in diameter. They have good bass.

DOH. Need a decent system to hear the difference.

Moved to "Music".

I listen to them on the PC and burn some to disc.

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Originally Posted by krunktastic

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

Try foobar2000.

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Thanks for the suggestion--I will. btw, I didn't mean to imply that I play flac files on my computer with VLC through my hi-fi system. I agree that would not sound very good. I'm glad to hear foobar2000 doesn't compress audio. I have the files, just never installed it. tbh, I'm not sure my modest computer speakers would sound much better though. I only listen to music through the computer when my wife is asleep or when I'm editing or compiling.

@Skizo: Hook 'em Horns, neighbor!

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Originally Posted by whitmar

@Skizo: Hook 'em Horns, neighbor!

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:wave:

FLACs are for CDs imo.

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Originally Posted by xxzzxx

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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.

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Conduct a test with foobar's ABX comparator and you'll see it yourself.

I eat them. :mellow:

How you play flac? I have the frontend but don't know how to play them on my pc. I do burn them to cd though (loseless).

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Originally Posted by grimms

How you play flac? I have the frontend but don't know how to play them on my pc. I do burn them to cd though (loseless).

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I use foobar. Don't know if it's the best but it does the job.