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FLAC Music Files

fourteenwingsfourteenwings
edited 2012-08-08 10:59:44 in General
There is love everywhere, I already know

Is there anything that these things honestly do better than MP3s aside from not working on portable music players, being insanely huge, not working on computers unless you've got certain (kinda rare) codecs installed and adding to elitist nerds... elitism?

Comments

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2012-08-08 11:25:45

    FLAC files always sound a bit better to me, more clear - I'll convert them to MP3, maximum settings, just for convenience, and those files always sound more compressed than the FLAC originals.


    Maybe my ears are playing tricks on me, though.

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.

    The whole "Being a lossless format" thing is kinda a big difference.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-08-08 12:04:15
    Has friends besides tanks now

    I keep reading the title as "FLAG: Music files" and going "dammit, what now?"


    Don't know much about music files, though. Except that iTunes sucks.

  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2012-08-08 12:50:36

    They are lossless, which means 1.) they probably sound better and 2.) you can re-encode them to a lossy format of choice without turning them into garbage.


    Being larger doesn't matter too much since hard drive space is pretty cheap.

  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    Hmm, maybe I was being a bit judgemental. But is the difference in quality really discernible? I listened to some of Nana Mizuki's heavier stuff and the original Eureka Seven soundtrack in both formats (well, not in headphones, cause I like having the ability to hear) and didn't hear anything out of the ordinary in either format.


    ^ Harddrive space is cheap, but I don't want to purchase 5+ more harddrives because I have no space left on my desk and I still like to listen to a lot of music (and obtain lots of new music that I'll never have time to listen to).

  • delta534delta534
    Tech support

    For the average person on average sound equipment, there will be no difference. Unless you need to re-encode the music to a different format, just stick with MP3s.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    > I keep reading the title as "FLAG: Music files" and going "dammit, what now?"

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    > I keep reading the title as "FLAG: Music files" and going "dammit, what now?"


    I actually woke up, saw this thread and went "goddamn it, not first thing in the morning."

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Did that, too.


    I'm pretty sure that's the whole active mod team.


    inb4 someone very funny starts making music threads beginning with "FLAC:"

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.

    I made a music thread about FLAC once! ...Except it didn't start with FLAC, and was months ago.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    I guess someone could snowclone this with "FLAK: [something that they get flak for]".

  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2012-08-08 14:46:22
    a little muffled

    Being larger doesn't matter too much since hard drive space is pretty cheap.
    MP3 player space is somewhat more limited, though (if your player even supports FLAC), and then you'd have to have two separate copies of your music library which sounds like a pain.


    Also related to the file size, while hard drive space is rarely an object, monthly download limits certainly might be.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I'm pretty sure that's the whole active mod team.


    yup
  • BastionBastion
    smote

    It happened to me too and I'm not even a mod here...

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