Best audio-player for FLAC

[Crowley]

There is a reason why these two rarely come together.

You ARE kidding me, right? Virtually every player program out there does ripping, burning, the whole shebang. The differentiation is the range of their operation (like, how fast a cd burn) or how many 'flavors' of compressed (or non-compressed) file types it can deal with, and the integration of the parts into the whole, if any.

I don't know what kind of software you are used to, but I'm ripping Audio CD for BitTorrent scene for quite some time already and EAC is the only software you should use for ripping while working on Win/Unix OS.

[Muana]

I think is Foobar

[saxman01]

Songbird is also pretty good

[john02]

I use the kmplayer.

[Ufologist]

Foobar is the best way to listen or convert

[aman11dhanpat]

VLC- best

[Skiz]

VLC- best

Wrong. In so many ways.

[1000possibleclaws]

I use VLC but that's cause I'm way too lazy to get a program to listen to my bootlegs with, and I couldn't care less about the minute sound difference in the first place. Easier just to transcode them to v0mp3 with dbpoweramp and dump them on my iPod.

[Skiz]

VLC used to be around the curve. But nowadays other media players have caught up and then some.

The only use it still has for me is viewing ISO and IMG files.

VLC is designed with video and versatility in mind. Audio, in my experience, is sub par unless I boost the priority of VLC to high, and who wants to do that?

VLC is an good player overall but when it is compared to something like the newly overhauled Winamp or Foobar2K and a good codec pack, it just doesn't match up.

[n00bz0r]

its foobar 2k for me <3