FLAC audio

[EyeMWing]

First, the question. How in the heck do you burn these? Nero 6, preferably.

And OMFG THIS IS THE BEST SOUNDING AUDIO FORMAT I HAVE EVER USED IN MY LIFE. I swear to god, the original CD these came off of didn't sound this good.

And I'm convinced that it's an acronym for FSCKINGPWN Lossless Audio Codec

 

[Coquito]

I usually uncompress them into .wav files & then burn. Traders really urge everyone to keep the original files around though, because you never know when someone will want it.

 

[Ikonomi]

Nero 6 requires a plugin to burn FLAC files. You can find it on this page (the official FLAC project site) near the bottom, under third party plugins.

And yeah, FLAC is cool.

Easy-operation edit:

FLAC plugin for Nero 6

Information edit: It's also in the Nero 6 plugin pack that's on BitTorrent. It has everything, I think.

 

[EyeMWing]

That requires work. And more disk space than I have. (Yeah, half a tb spanning 4 drives, and I don't have room for that, haha, I need to clean house)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Bull. If you can't spare a gig to uncompress some FLAC files and roast 'em, I'm cutting off your pr0n access right now.

- M4H

 

[EvilYoda]

Just google "flac nero plugin" and you should find a site with a crapload of Nero plugins, including all of the ones necessary to burn various lossless formats.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Bull. If you can't spare a gig to uncompress some FLAC files and roast 'em, I'm cutting off your pr0n access right now.

- M4H

Don't make me screenshot this beyawtch, I have 1.33 gigs free. I edit video. I don't actually store pr0n.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Nero 6 requires a plugin to burn FLAC files. You can find it on this page (the official FLAC project site) near the bottom, under third party plugins.

And yeah, FLAC is cool.

Easy-operation edit:

FLAC plugin for Nero 6

Information edit: It's also in the Nero 6 plugin pack that's on BitTorrent. It has everything, I think.

Teh winz.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Bull. If you can't spare a gig to uncompress some FLAC files and roast 'em, I'm cutting off your pr0n access right now.

- M4H

Don't make me screenshot this beyawtch, I have 1.33 gigs free. I edit video. I don't actually store pr0n.

Heheh. "Edit Video" indeed. 😉

How are the drives set up, individually or some flavour of RAID?

- M4H

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Bull. If you can't spare a gig to uncompress some FLAC files and roast 'em, I'm cutting off your pr0n access right now.

- M4H

Don't make me screenshot this beyawtch, I have 1.33 gigs free. I edit video. I don't actually store pr0n.

Heheh. "Edit Video" indeed. 😉

How are the drives set up, individually or some flavour of RAID?

- M4H

Individually, they're all different makes, models, sizes and interfaces (SATA transition in progress)

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yep, I have about 900 of my CDs ripped to FLAC so far on my music server box, and have about another 300 to go.

It's sweet to be able to fit 1,200 CDs onto a pair of HDs and actually be able to find CDs that I've lost track of ("Rack? boxed? piles in closet? piles in office? Where did I put that CD!?").

All with 100% exact CD quality, no "160 kbps is often hard to tell from CD" compromises.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Yep, I have about 900 of my CDs ripped to FLAC so far on my music server box, and have about another 300 to go.

It's sweet to be able to fit 1,200 CDs onto a pair of HDs and actually be able to find CDs that I've lost track of ("Rack? boxed? piles in closet? piles in office? Where did I put that CD!?").

All with 100% exact CD quality, no "160 kbps is often hard to tell from CD" compromises.

Previous to now, I ripped to 320kbit 32bit MP3. It's a world apart.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Also with FLAC you can transcode to other formats as needed (for use on a portable) without the drop in quality from lossy-to-lossy conversions, and burn back to a CD (with 100% CD quality sound) if your source CD is ever lost, stolen, or damaged.

FLAC, it's nifty keen!