Calling all FLAC heads,help!

[cracker2]

I have a few questions.
1)How do I know if the FLAC files I have are geniune?
2)How does one make/get FLAC files?
3)98% of cds are mp3,how do you get FLAC?Wouldn't the quality not be their because of mp3 to FLAC conversion?And if it does not,how would I convert mp3 to FLAC
Thanks:good:

 

[User0one]

It doesn't make sense to convert mp3 to Flac, because mp3 has lost much of the original quality of say a CD wav file. So converting a mp3 to flac just gives a file that is no better then the mp3, and a larger file.

So what's the point

Flac is considered a file about as good as the original CD wav file, but probably half the file size.

I have never heard of music ripped to flac for commercial sale, it is more used by Audiophiles who rip their own original music CD's to flac to save a little space without losing much of the original quaility.

I use to Rip CD's to Flac or ape another lossless codec, but with the advent of these new monster drives, I now have my whole Music collection of music CD's ripped to the full wav files, on a computer that is hooked up to home Theater system.

I still use mp3's on the small mp3 players or my laptop which has limited Drive space.

 

[cracker2]

Thanks for the reply!I guess I was wrong.I thought the factory cds were mp3,not WAV.
Yeah I don't mind using a lil more HD space.I heard their is really no differance between wav & flac.Like flac is a compression,but unlike mp3 you don't lose quality.

 

[User0one]

Most mp3's sound pretty bad when played through a Home Stereo System with hundreds of watts of power, and huge sub woofers.

MP3's don't sound bad on a portable mp3 player that has 5 watts of power and tiny little ear bud head phones.

If you are not ripping Music from store bought music CD's then forget about using flac.

I have about 2000 music CD's ripped to full wav files, and it only uses about 600 gigs. Kind of nice to be able to play my whole music collection on a quality Stereo System without having to handle the original CD's.