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What's Your Favorite Audio Codec?

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I would like to know what everyone's favorite audio Codec is. My personal favorite is FLAC. Amazing quality. Huge file sizes, but storage is so cheap I don't really care.  When I get music, I just order the CD, then rip it using foobar2000. Foobar is an awesome music player, ripper, tagger, encoder, etc. that you can add components written by any one to. Logan over at TekSyndicate has some great foobar videos.

 

 

 

Sorry, Linus... You don't have any videos over foobar.

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Allot of the music I already bought I am downloading FLACs of them now that I have a player that can support it.  Been using Foobar for a month and cant see myself switching to anything else other then foobar3000.

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FLAC also. I use EAC to rip my CDs, I use MediaMonkey as my player.

Pardon my English. Not my native language.

 

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MP3 320, since headphones never make use of anything more. Even the high end $2000+ ones. 

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MP3 320, since headphones never make use of anything more. Even the high end $2000+ ones. 

Not quite sure what to think about this. Headphones are analog, so there is no bitrate limit or anything like that, What limits you are your audio files/soundcard. Have you listened to a song in ~2000 Kbps FLAC, then the 320Kbps version? Massive difference, but I guess you have to have the ears for it.

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FLAC also. I use EAC to rip my CDs, I use MediaMonkey as my player.

Cool. added MediaMonkey to the poll.

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Not quite sure what to think about this. Headphones are analog, so there is no bitrate limit or anything like that, What limits you are your audio files/soundcard. Have you listened to a song in ~2000 Kbps FLAC, then the 320Kbps version? Massive difference, but I guess you have to have the ears for it.

There really is, I listened to a 1500kbps FLAC and a 256kbps from itunes and the difference was astronomical.  The clarity in every frequency is much better.  

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I don't know where the VLC option is...

At the bottom. Not like I just added it or anything... :p

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At the bottom. Not like I just added it or anything... :P

I saw it :P

 

I use FLAC whenever I can. And I usually buy CD's. I just like having a physical copy I can pass around my friends.

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Cool. added MediaMonkey to the poll.

Nice, now I can vote  ;)

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I saw it :P

 

I use FLAC whenever I can. And I usually buy CD's. I just like having a physical copy I can pass around my friends.

cant you just use a flash drive? 

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I use WAVs when I can; seems more universal than FLAC.  I assume WAV is just as good as FLAC since they're both lossless?

 

I'm okay with 320 MP3 most of the time though, as long as I haven't heard a lossless version. :lol:

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Not quite sure what to think about this. Headphones are analog, so there is no bitrate limit or anything like that, What limits you are your audio files/soundcard. Have you listened to a song in ~2000 Kbps FLAC, then the 320Kbps version? Massive difference, but I guess you have to have the ears for it.

The drivers/planers/loudspeakers don't make use of the higher sampling rate/resolution/bitrate. As a man with golden ears, I can perceive a difference, but there is zero measurable difference. Lets take my favorite example, I prefer to listen to Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold in flac, but there is really no measurable difference to my 320 rip that I use for portable listening. 

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The drivers/planers/loudspeakers don't make use of the higher sampling rate/resolution/bitrate. As a man with golden ears, I can perceive a difference, but there is zero measurable difference. Lets take my favorite example, I prefer to listen to Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold in flac, but there is really no measurable difference to my 320 rip that I use for portable listening. 

It's just personal preference, I suppose. :p

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It's just personal preference, I suppose. :P

Though higher end multichannel sound systems do make use of the better codec.

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Post something if your codec/player isn't in the poll. :p

 

 

Seems like I'm the only one that still uses Winamp lol

Haha, yeah!

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Foobar2000 is awesome. Half a year ago I was using WMP and I decided to switch, so glad I did.

Most of my music is in FLAC. Good quality stuff. :)

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cant you just use a flash drive? 

True, but none of my cars accept USB's, so I am forced to use CD's anyway :P

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True, but none of my cars accept USB's, so I am forced to use CD's anyway :P

ok in cars thats a different story. 

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Allot of the music I already bought I am downloading FLACs of them now that I have a player that can support it.  Been using Foobar for a month and cant see myself switching to anything else other then foobar3000.

There's gonna be a 3000??? :O

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There's gonna be a 3000??? :o

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I hope, what could they possibly improve on? 

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