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FLAC Music Files
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?
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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.
The whole "Being a lossless format" thing is kinda a big difference.
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.
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.
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).
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.
> I keep reading the title as "FLAG: Music files" and going "dammit, what now?"
> 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."
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:"
I made a music thread about FLAC once! ...Except it didn't start with FLAC, and was months ago.
I guess someone could snowclone this with "FLAK: [something that they get flak for]".
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.
yup
It happened to me too and I'm not even a mod here...