What is best format to download bootlegs

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  • CJ260717
    CJ260717 Posts: 414
    Thanks mrussel1 for the reply.  I should have seen the obvious and think I asked a dumb question. 2021 will be better.
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,667
    FLAC level has no bearing on quality, it just determines how much file compression there is.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,889
    CJ260717 said:
    What level do you guys recommend when I'm ripping a CD to Flac?  I've been doing level 5 with Foobar, but curious if I should be doing it differently.

    This seems odd to me.  The whole purpose of FLAC is lossless compression.  IE shrinking the file size while retaining the original quality.  If there's a quality scale going on, then something seems off?
  • mrk2
    mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,091
    Zod said:
    CJ260717 said:
    What level do you guys recommend when I'm ripping a CD to Flac?  I've been doing level 5 with Foobar, but curious if I should be doing it differently.

    This seems odd to me.  The whole purpose of FLAC is lossless compression.  IE shrinking the file size while retaining the original quality.  If there's a quality scale going on, then something seems off?

    It is just a scale of how much effort the plugin will put into squeezing every extra bit out of the finished file. Less effort, slightly larger file. More effort, smaller file. The things that matter, ie the audio content itself will remain intact and untouched in both cases.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    darthvedder said:
    FLAC level has no bearing on quality, it just determines how much file compression there is.
    Yes that's the word.  Lossless is lossless,  but I've always wondered why such an option exists,  therefore keep it as close to wav as possible. 
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,245
    demetrios said:
    Anyone else still playing Flacs on their Winamp player? 

    https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM


    Does it still whip the llama's ass?

    (Apparently not, as the post after yours indicates, but that joke never gets old.)
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,239
    Lost In Ohio said:
    demetrios said:
    Anyone else still playing Flacs on their Winamp player? 

    https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM


    Does it still whip the llama's ass?

    (Apparently not, as the post after yours indicates, but that joke never gets old.)

    Oh yes! 

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