I was looking and found out only winamp and the android music players play FLAC. You could also try VLC which plays EVERYTHING. Am told FLAC is for the distinguishing audiophile though to my mediocre ears I could notice nothing much in the sound quality.
jmarkhus From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rocco Radisch Sent: 28 October 2011 14:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LUG] ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) open-source now Right, so much to the theory. Just read that one can't even buy lossless ALAC tunes on iTunes store. Makes me wonder for what is ALAC used for anyway? Which MP3 players support FLAC? Never heard of it so far. Rocco On 28/10/2011 1:40 PM, Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote: Well, considering that iTunes itself uses the lossy AAC codec, I wonder how many Apple people have any ALAC-encoded files? Also, there's a true FLOSS audio codec called FLAC that's been around for, um, TEN years. :-) P. -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit. On 28 October 2011 09:11, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: On Friday, October 28, 2011 01:38:26 PM Rocco Radisch wrote: > While for some people that > might not make a big difference, but if you know a few > audio enthusiasts they will adhere that mp3 is not a > preferred format for storing audio if you look at > quality. It is true, MP3 is generally not a preferred format for professional installations, e.g., disco's, radio stations, e.t.c. This was especially the case at the start of the 21st century, when Napster made MP3's very popular. I knew several radio stations that moved from playing CD's to computers, and they didn't want MP3 - they went uncompressed; not efficient for space, but professional. In disco's (when I used to DJ), most folk who hadn't ever contemplated trading in their CDJ's for the VirtualDJ of the day weren't so enthusiastic about MP3's. To compensate, we tended to use higher bit rates of about 320Kbps for such installations, although I normally preferred 128Kbps due to hard drive space constraints. Most people cannot discern the difference in quality, especially if a song is encoded in MP3 format at a nominal 192Kbps bit rate. Mark. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
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