There are a couple of advantages that lossless WMA has over Flak in this respect.
Firstly, you don't have to keep converting between WAV and lossless WMA, you can burn to CD using nero directly from the WMA files. Secondly, you can export WMA files directly to a ever increasing number of portable devices and of course there's many software programs that will play WMA files and edit them. Thirdly, you can rip using media player which is free. I have nothing against Flak as a format but just think that WMA is far more popular and therefore is guaranteed a greater longevity especially as it's a microsoft product. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Bullis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:34 AM Subject: Re: flak or WMA lossless > Ok then. As someone who has spent the last few months in an ongoing project > to convert my long .wav files with track marks in them to flac sets, here's > the best one I've found. Use whatever program you want to get the cd tracks > into .wav format, and then get a hold of DBPowerAmp, which you should be > able to find by typing that into Google, and use that for making flac files. > It converts to several formats, so I guess you could use it if it has a > codec for lossless Windows Media. Anyhow, it remembers the directories you > use when converting the files from one format to another. When I make a flac > set, I have it send the flac files to the input directory, and delete the > .wav files. It prompts me, and that's fine. When I select flac files and > change the convert box to .wav, it puts the .wav files into my temp > directory so I can make a cd from them and then delete them, while it > retains the flac package back in it's own directory. I can therefore extract > a show from flac very quickly, burn to cd, delete it, and not worry that it > has gone and wrecked the flac set I've made in its own folder. It's a nice > program, and you can keep downloading the codecs you need, or only get what > you really want. If you decide later that you want to use another format, it > will tell you that you don't have that codec, and will ask you if you want > to download it. If you say yes, it knows just where to get it. I hope this > helps, and that you enjoy DBPowerAmp. > Thanks a lot. > Matthew > > Tired of HotMail? Try Runbox. 1 gig of storage for a reasonable price. > Use this link as your referral. > http://1362.runbox.com > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
