flac?

[flume]

Any tips for when someone sends me a link to a hosted file (as a flac) and all I want to do is play it but windows wont recognize it? I saved it down to my c drive and tried to pull it up into a few players - no go.

Yep - as you can tell - I failed computer science 101. Too busy with my clay tablets.

any tips are greatly appreciated!

 

[shoe]

FLAC are a lossless compression format. Check out http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

 

[fizbin]

Get the flac thingy for windows. It will decompress it back to a wav file that anything should be able to play.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

 

[whoofnagle]

etree.org - lots of info there as well

 

[jammybastard]

if you are on Windows get the Trader's Little Helper for conversion:

http://tlh.easytree.org/

[FONT=verdana,arial] Features[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial] - Encoding of wav files to ape, flac, shn and mp3 format
- Re-encoding of flac files
- Decoding of ape, flac, mkw, shn, mp2 and mp3 files to wav format
- Direct conversion of ape, flac, mkw and shn files to flac or mp3 format
- Test of audio files encoded in ape, flac, shn and mkw format
- Verification of cfp, ffp, md5, sfv and st5 checksum files
- Creation of cfp, ffp, md5, sfv and st5 checksum files
- Display of audio file properties (ape, flac, shn, mkw and wav files)
- Fixing of sector boundary errors that come with ape, flac, shn, mkw, wav and mp3 files
- Removal of extra RIFF chunks in audio files
- Rewriting of WAVE headers to canonical format
- Creation of skt files for non-seekable shn files
- Test of wav files for mp3 source
- Creation of torrent files
- Display of the information encoded in torrent files
- Hashing of torrent files against local filesets or files
- Drag & Drop functionality for all supported file types
- Integration into Windows Explorer
- Check for update function[/FONT]

 

[blood5150]

vlc media player will play it fine in all of its uncompressed glory.. and its free....

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[GAD]

Dont convert it. Get Foobar and listen to it.

http://www.foobar2000.org/?page=Download

GAD

 

[flume]

Got it! many thanks to all!:BEER

 

[MudPies]

+1 on Traders Little Helper.

Also, if you use Winamp you can drop in the FLAC codec and play them directly.

 

[steven.rogers]

vlc media player will play it fine in all of its uncompressed glory.. and its free....

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I second this, VLC is so useful to have. It's able to play pretty much every media file there is.

 

[barkndog]

Dont convert it. Get Foobar and listen to it.

http://www.foobar2000.org/?page=Download

GAD

+1. Foobar is awesome (and so is FLAC).

 

[Stk1520]

My Windows Media Player plays .flac files fine (I'm using Windows Vista and WMP V.11). I just right clicked on a .flac file, hit "Open with" and then "Set Default Program" to WMP and they play great.