[BC] Another Shoe drops

[Al Stewart]

There is a converter out there which will do the FLAC files ... to mp3 or wav or whatever. Not free, but ...

http://www.tomdownload.com/audio_mp3/mp3_converter/fairStars_audio_converter.htm


------ At 08:56 AM 05/10/2005 -0700, Kevin Tekel wrote: -------
  

>Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Why not flac?  That means it's Yet Another Codec for them to support.
>
>The codec in question _is_ FLAC.... it's just put in the Ogg container,
>much like how AAC is put in the MP4 container.
>
>It is impossible for Ogg Vorbis (the lossy codec) to go as high as 750
>kbps... it tops out around 450-500 kbps.  Ogg FLAC is the lossless codec
>which does average in the 600-800 kbps range, and that's what they're
>using, as I explained here earlier (see my post "Ogg FLAC lossless
>compression").
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Al Stewart
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