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Unfair and Unbalanced
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: From the misty mountains to the bayou country
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FLAC Rocks
Just downloaded some music in flac. A world of difference in sound quality!
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Information Junky
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
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what the flac?
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Everyone you meet knows something you don't. - - - and a whole bunch of crap that is wrong. Disclaimer: the above was 2¢ worth. More information is available as my professional opinion, which is provided for an exorbitant fee. 
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Unfair and Unbalanced
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: From the misty mountains to the bayou country
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Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for lossless audio data compression. Being lossless, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. FLAC's primary author is Josh Coalson.
FLAC reduces bandwidth and storage requirements without sacrificing the integrity of the audio source. A digital audio recording (such as a CD track) encoded to FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced in size 40 to 50 percent (46% according to their own comparison).[2] I could hear the difference immediately, even on cheesy computer speakers.
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Unfair and Unbalanced
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Location: From the misty mountains to the bayou country
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Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for lossless audio data compression. Being lossless, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. FLAC's primary author is Josh Coalson.
FLAC reduces bandwidth and storage requirements without sacrificing the integrity of the audio source. A digital audio recording (such as a CD track) encoded to FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced in size 40 to 50 percent (46% according to their own comparison).[2] I could hear the difference immediately, even on cheesy computer speakers.
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