On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > in the dir the *.flac's are in. CD's produced from those > (normalized wav's) files are impressive. So are the d/l size of > flac files. Four or more times the size of correspondin mp3's. No > wonder they sound better than store bought CD's.
If you want to play flacs in xmms there's a plugin in; just visit the flac project page. The flacs are bigger because it's a lossless compression--Free Lossless Audio Codec. > > Ogg's, no problemo. Got a perl script (ogg2wav) and made it > a+x, put it in /usr/bin along with flac. Tho the resultin Cd's > aren't all that much noticably better than mp3's normalized to > wav's an burned to CD's. > > BUT, I'm at a loss with .ape's. Google only has me more > confused. Other than to point out it's mainly pointed at Windoze > machines/OS. ape is another lossless codec, and you can use it on Linux. From the homepage you have to visit the developers page I think and you can find the source or links to a binary; also search the forums. There's also an xmms plugin for ape, but I usually decode them to wav and convert to flac on general principles. I couldn't get the most recent ape 3.99 to compile so I'm using 3.96; you might find some apes made with 3.99 that 3.96 can't decode. Which sucks. Download one file and try it first. > So... criticise my flac conversion, ogg2wav, an give me some > help with monkeys ;) There's some stuff on ... lossless.country > I'd like to try out OK, I did your homework for you: http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/index2.html#ape Todd ;) -- Name that tune #18: When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world the babies just come with the scenery.
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