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Title: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Man On The Moon on May 10, 2008, 01:42:59 PM: ?
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Al Bundy on May 10, 2008, 02:19:59 PM: just to give you some info on it, it's a lossless audio file. somewhat like mp3s but has a better compression rate and is free of licensing fees (unlike mp3s)

what program do you use to play your music? there might be plug-ins for your own program or you might have to change to another program
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: J Bananas on May 10, 2008, 03:05:12 PM: youre gonna have to find a new extraction program. flac files are nice but it is a pain in the ass to download them unexpectedly
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: K.Dub on May 10, 2008, 03:58:27 PM: There's an input to dBpowerAMP which allows you to convert FLAC's into MP3's
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Now_Im_Not_Banned on May 10, 2008, 04:09:24 PM: Take a giant hammer and smash your hardrive. The flac file should appear.
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Sir Petey on May 10, 2008, 04:18:18 PM: try and rename it to .rar and see what happens.

I had a flac file and winrar did the damn thang for me.
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: No Compute on May 10, 2008, 04:29:14 PM: Download Winamp or VLC Media Player.
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Man On The Moon on May 10, 2008, 11:43:13 PM: Quote from: No Compute on May 10, 2008, 04:29:14 PM
Download Winamp or VLC Media Player.

Got VLC, I'll try it.

Thanks to all...
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Man On The Moon on May 11, 2008, 11:21:28 AM: Quote from: K.Dub on May 10, 2008, 03:58:27 PM
There's an input to dBpowerAMP which allows you to convert FLAC's into MP3's

what's dBpowerAMP?

I need a program to convert them.
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: K.Dub on May 11, 2008, 11:31:17 AM: Quote from: L.A. Lakers 2007/2008 NBA Champs on May 11, 2008, 11:21:28 AM
Quote from: K.Dub on May 10, 2008, 03:58:27 PM
There's an input to dBpowerAMP which allows you to convert FLAC's into MP3's

what's dBpowerAMP?

I need a program to convert them.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
and then
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-flac.htm
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Man On The Moon on May 11, 2008, 11:38:57 AM: Good lookin' out, brotha. I'm gonna give it a try.
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: K.Dub on May 11, 2008, 11:40:21 AM: Quote from: L.A. Lakers 2007/2008 NBA Champs on May 11, 2008, 11:38:57 AM
Good lookin' out, brotha. I'm gonna give it a try.

Glad to help
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Man On The Moon on May 11, 2008, 11:52:17 AM: Didn't work, says I need to get a license to convert to MP3. Thanks for the help though.

Anyone know of any other converters?
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: K.Dub on May 11, 2008, 12:03:29 PM: Quote from: L.A. Lakers 2007/2008 NBA Champs on May 11, 2008, 11:52:17 AM
Didn't work, says I need to get a license to convert to MP3. Thanks for the help though.

Anyone know of any other converters?

For real? Has them bastards licenced it now? Damn, that sucks.

Mine's free ;)
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: Sir Petey on May 11, 2008, 12:43:02 PM: damn your flossin on em....lol
Title: Re: How do you open a flac file?
Post by: No Compute on May 11, 2008, 02:32:14 PM: You can convert .flac files with Winamp.