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*[http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware FLAC's device list]
 
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*[http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/FLAC Xiph's device list]
 
*[http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/FLAC Xiph's device list]
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It's possible to encode a WAV to FLAC in Winamp and in Foobar. In Foobar just right click->Convert->Convert to Same Directory->FLAC, level 5, all the other settings off->OK. However, it's better to use level 8 as it will minimise the file size ever so slightly but just take a little longer to encode. You can easily do this with the [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm FLAC frontend].
  
 
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[[Category:Audio Formats]]

Revision as of 11:06, 22 December 2007

FLAC is an open and free Lossless compressed audio format. Unlike lossy audio formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC, there is no loss of quality when saving audio files in the FLAC format.

FLAC is the recommended Lossless audio format to use on The Mixing Bowl

Playback

Software

The following media players will playback FLAC files:

Hardware


Encoding

It's possible to encode a WAV to FLAC in Winamp and in Foobar. In Foobar just right click->Convert->Convert to Same Directory->FLAC, level 5, all the other settings off->OK. However, it's better to use level 8 as it will minimise the file size ever so slightly but just take a little longer to encode. You can easily do this with the FLAC frontend.