Crazy Days
I'm just another ordinary guy with crazy dreams and a wiered life...who wouldn't know what's wrong with this world and life...let's try to find what?Saturday, August 30, 2008
FLAC Rox
Recently I was interested in the CD quality (or higher, SACD) music sources on the internet and, from the FLAC site I found that most of the artists move towards distributing their music through Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). For most of the artist, MP3 with 320Kb/s and FLAC are the main choices.
I noticed couple things while purchasing music in these audio formats.
Recently I was interested in the CD quality (or higher, SACD) music sources on the internet and, from the FLAC site I found that most of the artists move towards distributing their music through Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). For most of the artist, MP3 with 320Kb/s and FLAC are the main choices.
I noticed couple things while purchasing music in these audio formats.
- MP3 320 Kb/s is much cheaper, as MP3 is more compressed (and lossy) even at 320 Kb/s than FLAC. Therefore most of the sites charge higher price. But unlike MP3, FLAC is a direct source compression where audio loss is minimal (or most of the cases nil).
- Still most of the music players do not support FLAC files natively, even though they're supported, size of a FLAC is nearly 2 to 3 times the MP3 counterpart. Therefore the distribution sites advice to chose MP3 if you have no idea about FLAC.
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