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posted by mrchuck999 at 1 year ago
To decode or play FLAC files, you will need to install the appropriate FLAC program for your operating system. All versions of FLAC are available here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
The added bonus Nero gives you is being able to burn FLAC files as an audio cd (playable on any cd player) without having to decompress them.
If you have Nero installed, you can install (and sometimes the installer for FLAC will install it for you) a plugin to burn FLAC files directly to audio disc without having to burn them. For Nero6, the plugin directory is "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins ". Others are in "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Shared\AudioPlugins ". It's probably related to whatever version of Nero you're using, so if you try to drag and drop FLAC files into an audio disc and it doesn't work, you've probably got the plugin in the wrong folder. The plugin's filename is nxMyFLA.dll, so find it and copy it to the right folder.
The FLAC plugin, as well as some for other file formats is at http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/ .
Notes:
FLAC stands for the Free Lossless Audio Codec. Created in 2001 by a dedicated group of developers led by Josh Coalson, FLAC has surpassed Shorten as the most popular lossless audio codec in use today. The FLAC project is now under the direction of Xiph.org
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ken1701 wrote at 1 year ago
Great Information
I had allway's used MP3 / pro, I may have to rethink my postion now with this information and do some tests.
Thanks for the information Chuck, I am going to give it a go and see how it works out. :-)
Ken
NeroDude wrote at 1 year ago
Thanks
Yeah, agreed. Thanks. I guess I'll stick to MP3 for my videos' soundtracks. Size and compatibility are just too important to sacrifice on the altar of quality...
mrchuck999 wrote at 1 year ago
quality vs usability
FLAC is a lossless format so yes its better from that stand point but I personally never felt that MP3 sold because of its quality. MP3's success is based on it small and even scalable footprint and very reasonable quality. Now it's become the defacto format of choice so it's convenient in that it plays on nearly anything.
NeroDude wrote at 1 year ago
Question
Thanks MrChuck. In your opinion is FLAC greatly superior to a high-bitrate MP3?
FLAC Support
One nice thing about Flac compared to other lossless compression formats like Shorten or Monkey's Audio (which I used to use) is that there are some mobile players that support it.
Unfortunately for me Windows MCE doesn' support it, so my CDs are all encoded to lossless WMA on my HTPC.I'm in the process of converting my backup archive to Flac now. I had all my CDs compressed with Monkey's Audio and archived in uncompressed RAR archives. This gives me the error correction of both the file system (which is missing from CDA) and the archive.
In the future I expect lossless audio for home video to be standard, although it will likely be in the form of Dolby Digital Lossless (aka Meridian Lossless Packing or MLP). For next-gen formats like HD DVD and Blu-ray lossless audio requires a trivial amount of space compared to video, much like the difference between standard DVD video and heavily compressed Dolby Digital. However, as long as the standard consumer media is DVD there's not much use for lossless compression outside of DVD-A or similar audio formats.