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| FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec |
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| MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer |
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FRESHA
Joined: 05 May 2008
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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: FLAC support |
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Ez again all... I've just been reading on another site about FLAC audio compression that works like ZIP files, I know that MP3 is good, but FLAC could be the next best thing, since it compresses and decompresses at a lossless quality (so you can FLAC a WAV, then de-FLAC back to a WAV with no loss, while if you MP3 a WAV and then back to a WAV, you will lose sound quality). www.dubstudio.co.uk is where I got this info, they are a cutting house in the UK keeping vinyl alive - some other good bits on there too, but this FLAC option could be great if added in
What does everyone else think? |
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Wavosaur Main Developer
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You are right, FLAC file format seems very interresting and promising.
MP3 is not a lossless format (like ogg).
We worked on the flac SDK (to add this file support in Wavosaur), but for the moment we failed to compile the source codes, unfortunaltely. 
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Dandruff
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Hi Dandruff, happy to read you again!
For info, WavPack decoder is planed for next release. The SDK is a little bit easier to understand than FLAC.
We have always an eye on all the different file format. It's always a problem of time of coding... We need simple and quick SDK to optimise our own schedule. Wavosaur is not a huge firm.
For Flac for example the total documentation and source codes represent lot's of document to study.
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Dandruff
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Wavosaur Main Developer wrote: | | For info, WavPack decoder is planed for next release. |
Cool, thanks! It's the only lossless codec I really use/need :) |
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tommyD
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I voted for flac, though really WavPack would be equally useful and mp3 would be cool too. Support for lossy AND lossless compression would be great :)
(OT but still on the subject of audio formats: how about support for aiff?) |
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tommyD, wavosaur has a mp3 support, and import without problem AIFF files.
Let me know if I missed something :)
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Smurf43
Joined: 05 May 2007
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Hello Everyone!
Been bust recording, so haven't had much time to pop in lately....and yes, Wavosaur is still on the system!
I have used FLAC for close to 2 years and really like it. I just found WavPack a few weeks ago, so I really don't have any thoughts on it yet. But either one is better than MP3, and although I have to upload to sites in the MP3 format, I really dislike what it does to the sound.
I vote for Flac tho, just because I am use to it!  
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tommyD
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| Wavosaur Main Developer wrote: | tommyD, wavosaur has a mp3 support, and import without problem AIFF files.
Let me know if I missed something :) |
Blimey - you're absolutely right!
How the hell did I miss that!? 
Yet ANOTHER reason to love Wavosaur :) |
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otrov
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I can't believe what could be packed in 556K 
Please add FLAC support, and thanks for providing neat program
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FordMustang
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| flac ? is it not dead ? |
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Claw
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| +1 for FLAC support (at least importing). |
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Smurf43
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| FordMustang wrote: | | flac ? is it not dead ? |
No.....
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Acesys
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| +1 for FLAC - it's too important and widely-used these days. |
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