Flac Plugin for Winamp 2 and Winamp 5 - Flac Plugin for Winamp 2
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By: giacomo margarito 40 Reviews Mar. 31st, 2003 721,387 downloads |
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Flac Plugin for Winamp 2
This is a new plugin for playing the new opensource audio format called flac available on http://flac.sourceforge.netThe only problem is that you have to choose the right installation directory with the browse button
Staff Review:
Play Flac files with Winamp
Allows you to associate Flac files with Winamp. Check out http://flac.sourceforgelnet for more information.
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This is it, the best winamp plugin for audio enthusiasts and listeners of live music. If you are into audio, live music and/or are an audiophile, you will be using this plugin to listen to a lot of music. You can encode your CD's to .FLAC and you will usually end up with less than half the filesize than the wavs take up, yet retaining identical quality.Re: sounding the same as an mp3. That simply cannot be! Check the two in a wave editor, you'll see the difference. There is a wide margin between a 128kbps mp3 and a FLAC file identical to the .wav it came from. Another difference is, FLAC has no gaps between tracks whatsoever, regardless of Gapless Plugins. Do your research!.This is the essential FLAC plugin, FLAC is now a recognized format which quite a few hardware and software players support now. For more information check out the Free Lossless Audio Codec website at http://flac.sourceforge.net - For example, you can even play .FLAC on a modified Xbox with Xbox Media Center, because it is a port of Linux's mplayer (which the official site does not mention). The FLAC winamp plugin excels in all regions and is perfect for listening to those lossless sounds. The benefits of lossless music are now showing in this age of broadband everywhere and both HDD's and DVD writers getting cheaper, and the FLAC codec is the current one of choice, as it is open-source unlike SHN[Shorten].I think I've said just about everything about the FLAC codec and why it is worthy of 5 stars, but what are its bad points?Well, if you are really low on HDD space and don't care so much for quality, I advise you to go with the Musepack or ogg codecs. I would say a good Musepack encode would be 150mb per album but the FLAC version anywhere between 250 and 350mb. It's about how much you care about music and its quality and whether you strive to collect identical copies of legitimate CD's or you just want sample copies of original cds that you can buy in shops.Audiophiles: 5 starsNormal mp3 listening group: 4 stars.
