Free Lossless Audio Codec; Developer(s) Xiph. And decompress to an identical copy of the original audio data. FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing. Here's my guesses. Since flac is basically a lossless compression format. It does not alter the original data in any way. The file is in a sense, recreated upon. Hi all, i am ready to start the painfully boring task of ripping all of my CD's and wanted to know if it would be best to rip them as FLAC or WAV. Is there much.

A FLAC file, short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a compressed audio file that maintains the same quality as the original source despite often being less than 50.

People actually do checks on this using conversion software and then comparing files. 'In summary, I did this: alac -->wav -->alac -->wav -->flac -->wav All of the wav files are identical' The entire chain is not in exactly the same state when each format is playing.

So an audible difference is possible even if not at all likely. It is possible some players do show a difference. However all the digital bits output to a dac from any of the lossless formats will be EXACTLY the same. All of the lossless formats can be converted between each other with no change in the audio stream.

Magic Memory Stick For Psp here. The only changes will be tagging compatibility. Smart Scroll Mac Serial. If you really wanted to be wierd about it; rip everything as ISO and use a drive emulator to play all your music as virtual versions of your original CDs. Lee H wrote: I use FLAC, but I see you also have an iPod. I run 2 libraries, one in FLAC for sonos and one in ALAC for my iPhone. Using something like dbPoweramp this is failry easy to do. Also, MediaMonkey can transcode on the fly to another format (keep the original FLAC but put an AAC copy on your iDevice) but I found it very slow Good point, I'm guessing iphones don't support FLAC (Macs don't, not natively anyway), in which case maybe consider ALAC (which is kind of an Apple FLAC equivalent). Thanks for the replies everyone.