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gatomike26
Joined: 2005-07-20
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: Flac conversion program |
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I need a good program thats free to convert flac to mp3s to make cds out off.Also before I convert them should I store the flac files on DVD to save them for later trades?
I don't realy due audio just video but I've seen some cool stuff I'm intrested in checking out. |
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frankm
Joined: 2003-04-01
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Location: Wisconsin
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gatomike26 wrote: I need a good program thats free to convert flac to mp3s to make cds out off.Also before I convert them should I store the flac files on DVD to save them for later trades?
I don't realy due audio just video but I've seen some cool stuff I'm intrested in checking out.
Google Traders Little Helper or dbPowerAmp either of those will convert FLAC to WAV so you can burn Audio CDRs.
ALWAYS save the FLAC files, burn them to CDR or DVDR as data. You should always trade files intheir original format. FLAC, SHN, APE, whatever.
I routinely convert FLAC to M4A to play on my iPod and dbPowerAmp does that perfectly. |
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seamus
Joined: 2007-10-20
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Location: Childwall
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| traders little helper is the best program for flac>wav, but you don't need to convert to MP3 to put onto CDR, in fact you don't even need to convert to wav! Burrrn http://www.burrrn.net/ will convert/burn flac straight to CDR and it's free :thumb: And I would definitely archive your flacs to DVD |
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emanon
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| You do NOT want to convert FLAC to MP3 to burn it to CD, or you'll degrade the quality of the source recording. |
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emanon
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| What are you using to burn, anyway? If Nero, you can get a plug-in that'll burn FLAC on the fly. |
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TIM LUCAS
Joined: 2002-10-27
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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I use FLAC Frontend and then burn with Nero 7..no problems.
Tim |
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gatomike26
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I have nero.I just gonna archive the flac files on dvd.I then just wana put the songs on CD-R so I can listen in my car.
What is the name of the plugin I need? |
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Lance
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| which version of Nero do you have ? |
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Lance
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.bitburners.com/nero-audio-plugins/ |
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frankm
Joined: 2003-04-01
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Location: Wisconsin
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seamus wrote: traders little helper is the best program for flac>wav, but you don't need to convert to MP3 to put onto CDR, in fact you don't even need to convert to wav! Burrrn http://www.burrrn.net/ will convert/burn flac straight to CDR and it's free :thumb: And I would definitely archive your flacs to DVD
What Burrrn does is called, "On-The-Fly" burning, and whereas it might be fine for creating your own CDs to listen to in your car, I would not recommend on-the-fly burning for trading. I would recommend trading the original FLAC files or converting the FLAC files to WAV and then burning the WAV. When you burn on-the-fly you can introduce errors to the disc, although the decoding process has improved a lot, errors are still possible. I have to agree with everything else you said. :thumb:
emanon wrote: You do NOT want to convert FLAC to MP3 to burn it to CD, or you'll degrade the quality of the source recording.
You are absolutely correct. :thumb:
gatomike26 wrote: I have nero.I just gonna archive the flac files on dvd.I then just wana put the songs on CD-R so I can listen in my car.
Archiving the FLAC to DVD is the best idea. I'd also only trade the original FLAC files whenever possible. I just wouldn't recommend burning "on-the-fly" audio disc for trading, but that's just me. |
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seamus
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frankm wrote:
What Burrrn does is called, "On-The-Fly" burning, and whereas it might be fine for creating your own CDs to listen to in your car, I would not recommend on-the-fly burning for trading. I would recommend trading the original FLAC files or converting the FLAC files to WAV and then burning the WAV. When you burn on-the-fly you can introduce errors to the disc, although the decoding process has improved a lot, errors are still possible. I have to agree with everything else you said. :thumb:
Agree 100% about not trading CDRs created like this but I consider audio CDRs totally dispensible items as long as you have good archives of your flacs. IMO trading audio CDRs is a v.bad idea when you could swap flacs, I know perfect CDR clones can be done but very few people do offsets etc correctly, why take any chances? |
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