Thread: Some .FLAC questions
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Old 04.06.2007, 02:46 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Richard Pryor on Fire
Yeah, I want to put it on my ipod, I got that 4 disc misfits box set and I'm stolked, but I don't know what unfolding is....

oh shit that "unfolding" is just bad language on my part.

flac is a compressed audio file, and it's LOSSless. so you can go back & forth between flac & wav (or aiff in mac) without loss of quality. compress/decompress. if you go wav1 -> flac -> wav2, wav1 will be identical to wav2. no loss.

mp3 is also compressed but LOSSY. if you go wav1 -> mp3 -> wav2, there will be loss of quality. in other ways, wav1 sounds better than wav2.

anyway you generally need to decompress your FLAC into WAV format before you convert to MP3. step 1: use flac frontend to "decompress" your flacs into wavs. step 2: use your favorite mp3 encoder (say, itunes). some programs can handle that in a single step, but if it's too much headache just do it like this.
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