Re: Detroit 1980 on Dime

["weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" <spamtony>]

skywalker (skywalker919919) wrote:

> I use FLAC Frontend (http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm) to
> convert the FLAC files to WAV files (which you can burn to CDR or
> convert to mp3).  Using FLAC saves download time because it compresses
> WAV files to files about half as big, while still (unlike mp3) being
> loss-less.  Some programs, such as Winamp, play FLACs without needing
> to convert them.

Note that Winamp does require you to download a separate, 
free 3rd-party plugin for FLAC access. But once that's 
done, playback is completely transparent. 

And you might also want to check out "dbpoweramp" at
dbpoweramp.com. Their "MusicConverter" program 
offers FLAC-->WAV conversion for free. (Conversion 
to MP3 requires the purchase of a separate encoding 
license). What sets dbpoweramp apart from other
free programs is (IMHO) their "File Selector" which 
will let you several directories of files at once 
and preserve the structure, and which requires 
little or no thinking once it's installed.  

And the FLAC-->WAV conversion is very fast.