[peel] Flac files

[Eddie Duffy]

Ignore that: I forgot to scroll to my next page of mail and therefore 
missed the replies you'd already had. D'oh!

Eddie Duffy wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, and it's the 'lossless'
> that's important here. Yes, WAVs will be larger, but (unlike in the case
> of MP3) converting a WAV to a FLAC involves no loss of quality. So he
> WAV and FLAC files you create from Audacity will be *exactly*
> equivalent. A FLAC is effectively like a zipped WAV, but with the
> advantage that it can be played directly, without any need for
> decompression.
>
> HTH,
>
> Eddie.
>
> alanforduk wrote:
> >
> > As someone who doesn't know their Flac from their elbow, and who
> > thought ogg vorbis was a planet off of Dr Who, I seem to remember it
> > was decided that Flac was to be the format of choice for storing shows.
> > I have noticed that, when using Audacity, Wav files are larger than
> > Flacs. Does this not mean they're better? Or are we going for some sort
> > of compromise between quality and file size.
> > Or what?
> >
> > Alan
> >
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