Do you ever use FLAC files?

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:36 pm

I sometimes do it when i rip cd's....
320 mp3's do it for me though.....

Is this file that much used at all?

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:37 pm

if im playing out off ableton then i will always flac and tunes from cds i have...320s sound fine though & a vinyl Ripped flac wont sound as good as a digital download 320

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:42 pm

Piston wrote:if im playing out off ableton then i will always flac and tunes from cds i have...320s sound fine though & a vinyl Ripped flac wont sound as good as a digital download 320

Really?
i've never used Ableton, but you hear a big difference in 320 and flac out of Ableton?
Has it much to say when you are for an example playing Live?

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:47 pm

Psyolopher wrote:
Piston wrote:if im playing out off ableton then i will always flac and tunes from cds i have...320s sound fine though & a vinyl Ripped flac wont sound as good as a digital download 320
Really?
i've never used Ableton, but you hear a big difference in 320 and flac out of Ableton?
Has it much to say when you are for an example playing Live?

I don't understand....if it's playing through a huge system it will make a difference...but a lot of it is in the mind...i go bigger if i can...seems silly not to:)

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:22 pm

Interesting point you state!
Guess you're right!

wil blaze · Post by **wil blaze** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:33 am

flac = exact same quality as wav/cd audio...

i use them a fair bit

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:36 am

Wil Blaze wrote:flac = exact same quality as wav/cd audio...

i use them a fair bit

So i've heard, but the real question is!
WAV OR FLAC? :studio:

betamaxnomates · Post by **betamaxnomates** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:10 am

Ableton converts all mp3s to wavs anyway, does it not?

wil blaze · Post by **wil blaze** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:59 am

Psyolopher wrote:
Wil Blaze wrote:flac = exact same quality as wav/cd audio...

i use them a fair bit
So i've heard, but the real question is!
WAV OR FLAC?

well it doesn't really matter does it? only difference is file size and wav is more portable...

brokenshaman · Post by **brokenshaman** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:22 am

I buy all my files from addictech on Flac.

It's a bit cheaper than wav, smaller filesize and is lossless.

Don't really use them for playing out.

Serato doesn't support them and ableton converts them to a wav anyway, so you end up using up space for the Flac file and the wav conversion.

Basically, I just use them for storage, converting to wav or mp3 as required using dbpoweramp converter.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:44 am

BETAMAXNOMATES wrote:Ableton converts all mp3s to wavs anyway, does it not?

although you can convert an mp3 to a wav, its pretty pointless quality/ bit -rate wise...that would be like going to the car wash with a ford and coming out with a ferrari.

dvnt · Post by **dvnt** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:57 am

dTruk wrote:
BETAMAXNOMATES wrote:Ableton converts all mp3s to wavs anyway, does it not?
although you can convert an mp3 to a wav, its pretty pointless quality/ bit -rate wise...that would be like going to the car wash with a ford and coming out with a ferrari.

Yes. But in Ableton decompressing an MP3 to WAV it uses up the HD space for both the original MP3 and the WAV.

I convert everything I play in Ableton to WAV prior to warping/playing so I don't have to make Ableton do that and so I can save HD space.

jahtao · Post by **jahtao** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:12 am

FLAC, annoyingly not supported by iTunes

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:31 pm

jahtao wrote:FLAC, annoyingly not supported by iTunes

Strange, somehow iTunes always pissed the living hell outta me!

wil blaze · Post by **wil blaze** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:53 pm

with a bit of luck flac will start to become more widely supported (it already has to some extent... i believe Native Instruments might be supporting now/soon) cos it's a great format...

i would love to see flac taking the throne from mp3 as the compression format of choice but i don't see it happening cos the ratios aren't big enough... even with broadband speeds at a high and storage space cheap as ever people are still impatient and most people just don't care about the shit quality of mp3s....

oh well

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:11 pm

There is hope, i remember before that 128 kbit mp3's were the dominating ones! then the 192, then now 320......

wil blaze · Post by **wil blaze** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:44 pm

yeah but they are all still the same format... all playable through the same codec...

for flac to become the new standard would take a lot more change...

people using different bitrate mp3s is not a change in this regard

Do you ever use FLAC files?

Do you ever use FLAC files?

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