Free Lossless Audio Codec. As the name implies, there is no loss of sound quality. Beware, you'll need a FLAC player to hear them, as an iPod will usually only play .M4A & .ALAC files.
TQPM stands for the Quality Music Project. They tend to promote high quality music in the best quality format which is most of the time the FLAC format. Other quality format will include Apple Lossless (ALAC) or WAW. mp3 is a compressed format that has a lower quality to it.
Yes, it can hold the same type of metadata as an MP3 file.
FLAC was created on 2001-07-20.
Zune cannot play FLAC files. Anyway, you can convert FLAC to WMA or to MP3/MP3 with 320kbps in order to play FLAC on Zune.
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FLAC files are free lossless audio codec files. You can listen to these files by downloading WinAmp onto your computer and then downloading the FLAC Plugin.
APE is a lossless audio format similar to FLAC. Created by Monkey's Audio (APE, get it?), a player can be obtained at the Related Link below..
flac to mp3 registration code
If you're not worried about filespace: .WAV files. If you'd rather conserve space & still maintain quality: .FLAC files (.ALAC for Apple devices)
Theres quite a few media players for OS-X that support .flac. Mplayer, VLC, Cog al have native .flac support. iTunes can play flac files, with a utility called 'fluke'- http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/ There is also a (dead) project called macamp lite x that has a plugin for .flac support- http://arcticlounge.com/maltx/
If you're not worried about filespace: .WAV files. If you'd rather conserve space & still maintain quality: .FLAC files (.ALAC for Apple devices)
No. Because Flac and DTS are different file formats. Probably what you have is a DTS files converted to Flac. Flac will play on some audio equipment, but support for flac is still rare. DTS will play on more audio hardware, and tends to be in most of the multichannel DVD amps.