SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:41:54 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: .flac music files

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

butch@fyrelizard.com wrote:
>
> Yesterday I sent an email to Peter Skye and I am thinking his
> spam-filtering system is working well and he didn't read the message.

Now Butch, would I filter out _your_ messages? I got it, just haven't
replied yet. (If you must know, I had a cable go bad on a hard drive
during a backup which *really* scrambled some things. Luckily I have
multiple backups. Nothing was lost.)

> Knowing of his expertise in the music recording industry, I would like to
> get his opinion on .flac files.

Who needs my opinion? Start here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Also you can Google Advanced for

flac and (audio or music)

FLAC is not lossy so you get the original sound. In comparison, MP3 is
lossy so the quality isn't quite as good. (Do listeners care? Not
hardly.)

> My son sent me a cd of .flac files of recordings from the late
> 1060's early 1970's from the BBC radio show TOP GEAR.

>From 1060 you say? My my my, the BBC truly _is_ run by a bunch of old
geezers.

> All the recordings are in mono

They didn't invent stereo until 1066. That was the year that a _lot_ of
things changed in Brittania.

> I searched for a way to play the cd in os/2 without success.

Jerry Rash can probably get it working. He can do _anything_.

See the SourceForge FLAC download page at

http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

and look under "Source code" for the link to the OS/2 tar.gz. It's 1.2
MB. I haven't tried it.

> Just wondering if .flac files might be a
> better way to go than mp3 or ogg files.

Pros and cons. Higher quality (though you probably won't notice on
little speakers or at medium-to-low volume). Bigger files than MP3.

Give it a try and let us know. :-)

- Peter

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 16 | August | 2004 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.