Wow. FLAC beats MP3 so much ;O

[xequence]

A short story... I have the CD of The Eagles - Hotel California. I decided to rip it to my computer, when I realised the disc was scratched like crazy. A little program called uTorrent magically put a FLAC version of the album on my desktop. No idea how it happened :P

But thats not the point. The point is the flac version sounds just so so so so so clear and vibrant and wonderful. Much more then the MP3 version. I had previously been able to tell different codecs and bitrates apart, but I didnt realise how great quality FLAC is.

Yes, the album IS 250MB in flac, but thats not the point. Great albums diserve FLAC.

Now, if only my sony MP3 player would support SOME kind of lossless. I might have to go with WAV or something for it ;O

[BoyOfDestiny]

A short story... I have the CD of The Eagles - Hotel California. I decided to rip it to my computer, when I realised the disc was scratched like crazy. A little program called uTorrent magically put a FLAC version of the album on my desktop. No idea how it happened :P

But thats not the point. The point is the flac version sounds just so so so so so clear and vibrant and wonderful. Much more then the MP3 version. I had previously been able to tell different codecs and bitrates apart, but I didnt realise how great quality FLAC is.

Yes, the album IS 250MB in flac, but thats not the point. Great albums diserve FLAC.

Now, if only my sony MP3 player would support SOME kind of lossless. I might have to go with WAV or something for it ;O

FLAC quality should be the same as the original source. If you are going to archive something that's the format to use. Then you can make oggs etc for your portable player, as if it was from the original source. :) Lots of flexibility there.

[xequence]

FLAC quality should be the same as the original source. If you are going to archive something that's the format to use. Then you can make oggs etc for your portable player, as if it was from the original source. Lots of flexibility there.

I know, FLAC is lossless. Just my original source I had was all scratched up.

And for lossless, ill stick with MP3. If I ever need to use a better quality lossy one ill go with musepack ;)

[garciadc]

HI,
To add, you can have ID tag associated with FLAC unlike SHN.

[AlexandreP]

And for lossless, ill stick with MP3.
You mean, for the convenience you will stick with MP3... because MP3 is lossy, music lose quality when ripped in MP3.

[gord]

ogg vorbis is the only way to go, if you want good value lossy recording that is ;)

[asimon]

Yes, the album IS 250MB in flac, but thats not the point. Great albums diserve FLAC.
Not with my ears and my sound equipment. ;-)

[dosed150]

yeh but mp3 at high bitrate like 320 sounds really good as well