flac player for windows ?

[Ray]

have been seeing some flac audio files around but can't find a player that
will open them on a win2k machine.... any ideas? the winamp thing is broken
right now....

ray

 

[Lars Stokholm]

have been seeing some flac audio files around but can't find a
player that will open them on a win2k machine.... any ideas? the
winamp thing is broken right now....

Foobar2000: <http://foobar2000.hydrogenaudio.org/>.

 

[charles]

have been seeing some flac audio files around but can't find a player that
will open them on a win2k machine.... any ideas? the winamp thing is broken
right now....

ray

Best - http://foobar2000.hydrogenaudio.org/

 

[Ray]

thanks a heap - got foobar and it works... but ?why flac? the files are
HUGE...

-- Ray

 

[Lars Stokholm]

thanks a heap - got foobar and it works... but ?why flac? the
files are HUGE...

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Because they are lossless,
they cannot be compressed to the size of mp3-files (which are lossy).

 

[Lars Stokholm]

And if you find the interface a bit dull, try foobarlooks
http://www.foobarlooks.tk

Actually, in version 0.7, the standard interface will come in a
seperate dll also.

Foobar purists will probably SCREAM!

I know I am.

 

[Ninou]

have been seeing some flac audio files around but can't find a player that
will open them on a win2k machine.... any ideas? the winamp thing is broken
right now....

ray

Flac plugin for winamp 2
http://classic.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml;$sessionid$42UW10LZSCMX05YAAAARCZA?componentId=131643

 

[JanC]

thanks a heap - got foobar and it works... but ?why flac? the files are
HUGE...

Like someone else said: FLAC files are lossless, meaning they have the same
quality as the original CD or a WAV rip of the CD. They sound *exactly*
the same, because after uncompressing you have the same audio data as the
original CD.

It uses compression that's similar to ZIP or ARJ or RAR. One important
difference with those formats is that it allows you to start playing at
1'30" from the beginning without having to decode all the data before that
(in tech speak: it's "seekable").

If you don't like those huge files, you can always decode them to WAV files
and then encode these using Ogg Vorbis or LAME.

 

[Ray]

thanks much to all... got what I needed and learned a good deal too...
-- Ray

 

[musicholix]

Lets me recomend a nice free flac player for you.

Eufony Free Audio Player , freeware, http://www.softe.net/free-audio-player.php

meanwhile, the site also provide a free fla converter as below:

Eufony Free FLAC MP3 Converter , freeware, http://www.softe.net/free-flac-mp3-converter.php

hope these helps.