Flac vs mp3

**4play** · 12-18-2007, 10:06 PM

you really are not going to notice a massive difference between flac and a high bitrate encoded mp3 if your listening to Linkin park. mp3 tends to cut off very high and very low frequencies when they encode music. Unless the music actually has these (classical or acoustic) and your equipment is capable of reproducing them then your not going to notice.

mp3 has become amazingly popular due to the fact the file size is small and its almost impossible for the average consumer listening to the killers on their ipod on the train in the morning with the background noise to notice any difference.

**shutdk** · 12-18-2007, 10:15 PM

_flac_

**DyNast** · 12-19-2007, 02:32 PM

I prefer mp3, I FLAC files are too big

**grimms** · 12-19-2007, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by orfik

The FLAC vs MP3 conversation is an ignorant one. Even if you don't believe that FLAC sounds better (which it does, and I'd bet a large sum of money the people who think it doesn't don't have the components to make that claim), it's an archival codec before anything else. You use it to keep perfect copies of CDs so that you don't need to disturb your physical media. From FLAC you can transcode to any of the lossy codecs and maintain the maximum amount of quality. You cannot transcode from lossy to lossy without a significant degradation in the file. Should some advanced lossy codec emerge in the future, you can still use those FLAC archives to convert to that, instead of being stuck with a lossy library technically inferior to the new codec. Take iterations of LAME: archive all your files in one generation of the codec and you're stuck with it.

That pretty much sums it up. I prefer mp3 V0 rips, but if i was to burn a cd Flac wins the money pot.

**wrongun92** · 12-20-2007, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by 4play

you really are not going to notice a massive difference between flac and a high bitrate encoded mp3 if your listening to Linkin park. mp3 tends to cut off very high and very low frequencies when they encode music. Unless the music actually has these (classical or acoustic) and your equipment is capable of reproducing them then your not going to notice.

mp3 has become amazingly popular due to the fact the file size is small and its almost impossible for the average consumer listening to the killers on their ipod on the train in the morning with the background noise to notice any difference.

I see, I'll try something classical.