Re: Newbie question about FLAC

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 03:45:26 GMT, Buzz Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:22:15 +0000, odd_skipped wrote:
>
>> What is the best software to process the flac files in order to record
>> to cd or minidisc?
>> 
>> Also,  how do the PAR2 files work?  I have quickpar, and it always
>> indicates missing blocks.
>> 
>> Thanks for helping.
>> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I'm going to point you in the direction of a few links, which will
>probably help you out:
>
>PAR/PAR2:
>http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
>http://www.pbclements.co.uk/QuickPar/AboutPAR2.htm
>
>FLAC:
>http://flac.sourceforge.net/
>
>Briefly: PAR2 is an improvement over PAR because there's no longer a
>1-to-1 relationship on how many PAR files you need to recover missing
>pieces.  PAR2 can also fix files, whereas PAR can only recover them.
>
>FLAC is a lossless encoder.  This is usually a good thing -- especially in
>a newsgroup such as this one where the quality of the recording is
>important.  I mean, who really cares if Britney is as 64kbs MP3?  She
>sounds the same, right? :)
>
>FLAC, on the other hand, will not degrade the quality of the recording to
>save a few bytes.  I like it better than some of the other alternatives
>out there (Monkey's Audio, or APE files) because there are plugins that
>let you listen to the file rather than having to decode it to listen like
>you do with APE files.  True, FLAC files tend to be a little larger than
>MP3s, but you're getting a true CD-quality recording rather than one
>that's nearly as good.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Buzz

Monkey's Audio has a Winamp plugin for playback, under the General
options window of the program.