Music files in .flac format? Shit.

[Death Metal Moe]

Anyone have any idea how I can even listen to these files? A "friend" I met through Bitlord "gave" me a few files in this format. For the life of me I can't find out how to listen to them, convert them to MP3s or burn them to a CD-R.

Anybody even heard of this shit?

[mikepop]

Ive used flac files for years.
I can send you a converter if you want.
PM me your email.

[Sparkstalker]

http://www.foobar2000.org/

[Death Metal Moe]

Thanks for the help Sparkstalker, but I forgot to post that mikepop helped me out last night with a little E-mail.

Thanks again mikepop. That was all I needed to get the files into MP3 format.

[Sparkstalker]

Cool. I ran into the same thing a few months ago, so I had it handy...

[mikepop]

Anytime Moe.
Maybe you can help me with a soundtrack to my animation.

[al885]

flac usually is lossless, right?

[EvilMonkey71]

flac usually is lossless, right?

Yes and shn files are also but most people use flac these days.

[LilJimmyRbinson]

Yes and shn files are also but most people use flac these days.

What program plays them though?

Everytime I get them they're like 40mb each so you can't put them on CD. Plus unless you have $1000 speakers, you can't really tell the difference right?

[fcuknu]

it matters to each person. Anything under 392 kbps sounds like crap to me. MP3 compression really is not the best. It is very old and takes out a lot of imporant data. AAC is a much more advanced codec. Heres my rule: If you cant tell a difference, encode at a lower bitrate (128 being the absolute minimum) to save space. OGG is also a good format, but it can be tough to find a GOOD player to play it. If you have terabytes to spare, keep it in a lossless format (no compression)

[sknight]

Flac is great, but I use OGG in 256 vbr for almost everything.