[peel] Lossy and Lossless Audio compression

[Tom Bartlett]

 >Flac is not an audio format like MP3 or OGG. It's more like ZIP or RAR 
- a way of temporarily compressing files so they're easier to send.<

Erm you are a bit wrong wrong on that one! FLAC is an audio format. Free 
Lossless Audio Codec is it's full name for starters. I suggest you have 
a look here for a beginners guide.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec

You can play FLAC back in most players including i-tunes and Windows 
media player if you download the right filters. I use Foobar 2000 on XP.

Tom

markbursa@... wrote:
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>     >>Maybe FLAC is superior but so was OGG and it (OGG) seems to be
>     falling by the wayside a la betamax!<<
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>     A perfect analogy.
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>     Ogg is preferable to MP3, but incompatible with a lot of players
>     etc, and will surely wither away.
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>     >>Anybody have any convincing arguments for one or the other?<<
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>      Once you un-Flac them they turn back into WAV files - which is
>     the best you can get.
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>     So please use Flac ahead of Ogg , MP3 or any other compressed
>     format, which permanently remove information from the files, so
>     degrading the quality.
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>     The alternative to Flac is Shn, which is similar but less widely
>     used and not as effective in reducing file size.
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>     Cheers
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>     Mark
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