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Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:44:09 -0600
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Re: [idm] LEARN FLAC ...was Intelligent Toys 2. Conversion of .mpga to .mp3?
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On Nov 14, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Cody Tubbs (wISPdirect) wrote:
quoted 23 lines It would be super if people would spend the effort to familiarize> It would be super if people would spend the effort to familiarize > themselves with > FLAC and how to encode their music using it. > > Having two downloads would be awesome, one lossless and > one which is compressed via ogg or mp3 or something. > > If everyone would view: > http://flac.sourceforge.net/ > and: > http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html > and some of my personal bookmarks: > http://www.bobulous.net/misc/audioFormats.html > Here's a tag editor: > http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ > > Winamp and xmms both have support for flac, either by default or > plugin format > depending on your version. When dealing with IDM we are using such a > vast array > of sound, that once encoded to lower quality (mp3, ogg, etc), the > listener/consumer > is missing out on so much of the original production.
iTunes on both Mac and PC supports Apple Lossless, which is basically as good as FLAC/Monkey's Audio (Ape) files in file size and quality and best of all the end user doesn't have to do anything other than install iTunes. It's a lot easier than dicking with plug-ins and so on (imo). Sure it's not open source, but hey, we're talking about the vast majority of users who couldn't care less about open source and only want simplicity. PS: Try to edit your replies and not post everything, your reply message was huge. :) -- Mr. Tangent [the binary police] www.mrtangent.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org