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I got a bittorrent share containting some flac files of a Newcastle '85 gig, but what are FLAC files? And how can I open them? I really feel like having a treasure chest in front of me but not knowing which key to use :(
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I use 4music's Flac to mp3 converter- though I'm getting worried about the fact that I only have 6 days left on the unregistered copy :oops:
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download flac front end from http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
It's free.
They are a compressed lossless format.
Easy to use & free to use forever.. :D
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Great! Thanks guys, I think it work now...
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See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

Greatly preferrable to mp3 and other lossy formats especially for archiving music (I rip my CDs to flac immediately after buying new ones and never touch them again), unless you want to store stuff on your portable mp3 player, in which case you can encode an mp3 or ogg from a flac just like you would from a wav or raw track. Best thing is it's free, unpatented and open-source. The files are of course a bit larger than with lossy compression.
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theres more info on FLAC here: http://myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8356

and a small doc I put together for a weed here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pecky2uk/m ... sflacB.doc
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SomeKindOfStranger wrote:and a small doc I put together for a weed here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pecky2uk/m ... sflacB.doc
That link was very useful when I first dived into FLAC files. Thank you. :notworthy:
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Foobar2000 is used by most seasoned traders for seamless playback of FLAC's and other media files. http://www.foobar2000.org/
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Thanks for this link Karst , finally something that works !
I had some things in FLAC files on my computer for a couple of weeks already ,
and I was beginning to think that I'm really stupid or something,
because all the other things weren't working , but this worked straight away :)
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Sorry if already been posted but what program is best for burning FLAC files?
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if you is Mac, like me and a few other weirdos, xACT is a nice wee free d/l prog
does the job, no complaints :D
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another for us Macsters, XLD
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25030
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

still prefer xACT, but this is another choice.
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