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Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
2008-07-22, 13:55
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Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
I only have one album of mp3s that I can't get in lossless form.

Any converter you'd recommend to convert this to .flac?

Thanks in advance.
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2008-07-22, 13:57
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
If you use Windows, dbPoweramp.
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2008-07-22, 14:09
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
Cheers.

Has a free trial period. Need to download their FLAC plugin too. Which also can do level 8 compression. Right click multiple files and it utilises multiple processors if you have them.
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2008-07-22, 14:25 (This post was last modified: 2008-07-22 14:27 by vicdiaz.)
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
If you select the basic option, then it is free forever! Additional fancy plug-ins and DSPs are extra $$$.

I've been using it since I bought my Akurate DS last March and no complaints so far. I use it to convert the WAV files created during my Viny ripping sessions to FLAC files.
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2008-07-22, 19:08
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
May I ask what is the point of doing this ?

The DS range can play MP3 files natively. Re-encoding a lossy compressed file to a lossless format will NOT restore the 'missing' data - flac files made from MP3s will sound identical to the MP3 source - nothing gained, nothing lost. Flac files are considerably larger than MP3s hence by doing this conversion the only difference will be using more disk space unnecessarily

....or have I missed something
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2008-07-22, 19:15
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
Hi.

I completely agree with rockfather - so if he has missed something, so do I...

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2008-07-26, 20:35 (This post was last modified: 2008-07-26 20:36 by pixie publishing.)
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
"Every time you encode with a lossy encoder, the quality will decrease. There's no way to gain quality back even if you transcode your 128kbps MP3 into a 320kbps MP3 (or any other high-quality compression).
Transcoding between lossy formats is therefore generally not recommended. The sound quality of the result will always be worse than the (lossy) source file."

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?...ranscoding

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2008-07-26, 20:41
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
Warren.mp3 : ) i.e. its missing something, or at least it/I was.
rockfather Wrote:May I ask what is the point of doing this ?
I thought DS's only played WAV and FLAC. Or perhaps they only used to.

So yes, I have now deleted the FLAC copy of the album and have just kept the mp3.
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2008-07-27, 15:30
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RE: Converting to FLAC from other format, eg mp3
Add to that MP3 and AIFF.
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