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Breakfast Babble => Score! => What The Funk => Topic started by: Marcial on March 14, 2005, 04:17:44 pm

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: Marcial on March 14, 2005, 04:17:44 pm

I have noticed that when you download a show from LMA using Smart FTP, along with the FLAC files that I download there are also wav files... is there any reduction in quality by downloading the wav files as opposed to FLAC & then converting them to wav files yourself?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: boombox on March 14, 2005, 06:08:12 pm

Flac is a lossless file format. Just get the flacs and convert - damn sight smaller download!!

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: freddiewaht on March 14, 2005, 06:10:40 pm

if you use nero to burn,skip over the conversion.its automatic

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 07:04:10 pm

Quote from: Marcial

I have noticed that when you download a show from LMA using Smart FTP, along with the FLAC files that I download there are also wav files...

marcial -

can you give me an example of a show like this? just wanna check it out.. not sure there should be any .wav\'s on archive.org.. it might be a glitch in the matrix..

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: Marcial on March 14, 2005, 07:39:25 pm

oops... my bad... looks like I was confused... I guess I meant mp3 is avaliable on LMA, not wav... I was confused because I saw the little symbol... are the wav and mp3 symbol supposed to be the same?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 07:44:43 pm

if you\'re using the same player to play both, they\'ll most likely be the same.. you can specify different icons for different file types in windows explorer (tools > folder options > file types).. i\'m pretty sure winamp has a bunch of different icons built in that you can choose from..

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: Gordo on March 14, 2005, 07:49:18 pm

does anyone know how to cut gaps when burning already converted flac\'s to cd for listen?? its not a huge deal but it hurts when the boys are peaking and falling into a quick change and i get that 2 seconds of silence that kind of throws my car groove off.

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 07:52:04 pm

gordo - you using nero?

if so, you need to select all the tracks (except track 1), right click, select \'properties\' and change \'pause\' from 2 to 0. it\'s a pain in the ass, and i don\'t think there\'s any way to default to 0, but nero\'s still the best..

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: Gordo on March 14, 2005, 07:54:53 pm

is nero just another type of conversion program like flac frontend?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 08:20:49 pm

no, nero is a burning program..

what program are you burning with?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: Gordo on March 14, 2005, 08:22:51 pm

window media player... im not so good with computers, i mean i just got the new Windows XP and that was the burning program it came with. can i download Nero free?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: jocelyn on March 14, 2005, 08:58:50 pm

heh, no way. that\'s why i don\'t have it.

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: oldnewbie on March 14, 2005, 09:16:22 pm

dave, is there a way to stop that from happening on radio joe?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 10:02:24 pm

Quote from: jocelyn

heh, no way. that\'s why i don\'t have it.

yeah well if you showed your face in the last 3 months you\'d have it. ;)

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 14, 2005, 10:05:04 pm

Quote from: oldnewbie

dave, is there a way to stop that from happening on radio joe?

nope. the files stream one at a time, so there needs to be a gap in between each track. the only way around this would be streaming the entire show as one big long track, which wouldn\'t allow you to skip in between tracks..

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: oldnewbie on March 14, 2005, 10:54:44 pm

Quote from: davepeck

nope. the files stream one at a time, so there needs to be a gap in between each track. the only way around this would be streaming the entire show as one big long track, which wouldn\'t allow you to skip in between tracks..

might that be better?

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: derickw on March 15, 2005, 12:31:44 am

i\'d rather have a full show untracked. i\'m a fan of LISTENING to my music

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: ChrisF on March 15, 2005, 02:20:10 am

but the whole point of archive is to archive the flac files. the streaming files are just a bonus.

Title: Does it make a difference???
Post by: davepeck on March 15, 2005, 04:39:28 am

Quote from: derickw

i\'d rather have a full show untracked. i\'m a fan of LISTENING to my music

Quote from: oldnewbie

might that be better?

archive.org is a free service.. radio joe is simply something i\'ve integrated into this site to listen to shows off there. i ain\'t complaining. :)