flac, now playing with amorak..

[Andrew Fox]

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i am happily playing a 40 min Dead track from woodstock, in flac
format in amorak for i am a Linux user, plays it out of the box

cheers  andrew




-- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "saipanda" <saipanda@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here's an info page on FLAC:
> 
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html
> 
> Basically, it's a lossless format, so is often thought to be most
suitable for archiving 
> material, for minimal (maybe zero) loss of sound quality. If you use
a player that doesn't 
> support it, you should be able to convert it pretty easily to
whatever you use (mp3 etc) -- 
> see page for conversion software links.
> 










> I'm no expert, but if you want to play stuff on an ipod I think you
may need to covert it to 
> another format.
> 
> Personally, I'm good with mp3, but see the value of FLAC for the
upcoming project. Alas, 
> probably can't contribute more than financially as I'm in Japan
(postage no doubt 
> prohibitive) and only have a rotten old cassette player anyway. 
> 
> Many thanks again to DeeDee and Rocker for sorting out the
practicalities of getting hold 
> of the tapes for the group, and also to those who can contribute in
terms of time and 
> effort for the ripping. Can't wait to find out what's on those tapes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve W
> 
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > please tell me about flac, will it play on an ipod (legally or
hacked)
> > > what player and ripper do you guys use, i have  a huge load of
> > > woodstock in large directories coded in flac and want to use/play it
> > > in batches for shufffle repeat play.,...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > andrew , cheers
> > 
> > soory  shouls have snipped  last post 
> > 
> > >
> >
>