For Forum members in Bangalore

[kksunil]

From where do you get readymade WAV/FLAC files? Is it available in stores like you get MP3?

 

[unleash_me]

Linn Records - The best recordings in Studio Master Download, Vinyl and SACD
naimlabel.com
https://www.hdtracks.com/

 

[kksunil]

Thanks Unleash_me....
Any more wav/flac URL links for Indian tracks?

 

[marsilians]

Folks

I'n case anyone has music ripped using loss less formats like FLAC ro Ogg, or in high quality using other formats, could you please PM me details?

Many thanks

George

what details are you looking for?

 

[BJ159]

since this a sub-forum for Bangalore members...

Can someone provide me with the name and address of some good CD shops please. A friend of mine is travelling there soon and I want him to get me some good SP Bala recordings.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mnhegde]

@BJ159: There are plenty of shops having good collections. You have Tempations- Jayanagar (Available in other areas too), Calypso-Jayanagar. These are the places I personally prefer for my requirements, Our Friends might soon chip in with some more shop names and places .

 

[gobble]

since this a sub-forum for Bangalore members...

Can someone provide me with the name and address of some good CD shops please. A friend of mine is travelling there soon and I want him to get me some good SP Bala recordings.

Thanks in advance.

I personally prefer Landmark in Forum. Visit there very often like once a fortnight, and shopping for CDs there is my only excuse to visit Forum. Avoid sundays though. It is suffocating.

Regards

 

[BJ159]

I suppose Jayanagar is some area in Bangalore?

While Forum is some shopping complex?

Temptations must be some CD shop chain?

Thanks!

 

[mnhegde]

I suppose Jayanagar is some area in Bangalore?

While Forum is some shopping complex?

Temptations must be some CD shop chain?

Thanks!

Jayanagar is a nice place to shop almost anything, 3rd and 4th block are the places which attracts the shoppers most.

Forum is a popular Shopping Mall.

Temptations is a CD Shop Chain.

 

[harryanthony]

Stevieboy, a FLAC file is generally half to 1/3rd the size of a WAV file. Some notable features of FLAC files are the following (from sourceforge):

• Lossless: The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing.
• Fast: FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware.
• Hardware support: FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, to home stereo equipment, to car stereo.
  
  
  Cheers

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  Venkatcr - on the point of hardware support "FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, to home stereo equipment, to car stereo" - can you please suggest me some good consumer electonic devices that play flac and .wav?

 

[venkatcr]

can you please suggest me some good consumer electonic devices that play flac and .wav?

Wave is played by a large number of devices including portable players from Zune, Sony, Creative, and even Apple's iPod.

FLAC files are playable on most products made by Cowon. I believe the iPod can also be modified to play FLAC files.

Cheers

 

[gobble]

Wave is played by a large number of devices including portable players from Zune, Sony, Creative, and even Apple's iPod.

FLAC files are playable on most products made by Cowon. I believe the iPod can also be modified to play FLAC files.

Cheers

Nice! I must try this. Is there a link to setup ipod with flac?

Regards

 

[harryanthony]

Wave is played by a large number of devices including portable players from Zune, Sony, Creative, and even Apple's iPod.

FLAC files are playable on most products made by Cowon. I believe the iPod can also be modified to play FLAC files.

Cheers

does any BD player like oppo, pioneer or panasonic support FLAC, I will be using this play flac content i have downloaded from the net..... i will be needing top if not very good quality... connected to a AVR and good floor stand speakers

 

[iaudio]

Nice! I must try this. Is there a link to setup ipod with flac?

Regards

Gobble,Is this what you are looking for?
WhyRockbox < Main < Wiki

 

[gobble]

Gobble,Is this what you are looking for?
WhyRockbox < Main < Wiki

No i want to keep the jailbroken s/w for a while. Unless Rockbox is bug free and better than the iphone OS and the touchscreen works like before.

Regards

 

[gobble]

does any BD player like oppo, pioneer or panasonic support FLAC, I will be using this play flac content i have downloaded from the net..... i will be needing top if not very good quality... connected to a AVR and good floor stand speakers

I asked Mr. Oppo - He has no plans for introducing flac support.

After some personal research I have come to understand that most players use some low level of-the-shelf API product designed to work on chips used in such players - and it does not support flac decode playback. And there is no alternative or its not financially feasible to re-work the entire development framework to introduce this in most consumer grade players. oR there is no will on the part of the consumer industry to develop a future version that will ..

But this was long back and I do not recall the name of the API product I had discovered.

Regards

 

[harryanthony]

thank you for that update...
how about media streemer like wd hd and xtremenrs.... why the ps3 will be a good choose if its able to play these formats... i am not sure if it does...the sony website does not specify anything on it...but if it did any comments on the quality of the output?

moreover it can play bd disks, and games.....

 

[iaudio]

Harryanthony

WD does play flac, so does xtreamer. But their analog out isnt too good( tried WD myself, Xtreamer I have read about), so you will have to use their digital out with a DAC to get good sound quality.

 

[harryanthony]

iaudio,

do you feel the qulaity from the analog out is better than the quality one gets playing mp3?

 

[marsilians]

Venkatcr - on the point of hardware support "FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, to home stereo equipment, to car stereo" - can you please suggest me some good consumer electonic devices that play flac and .wav?

As an owner of Sansa Fuze, I can say that it has the best quality amongst the players I have heard so far. Cowon is a close second but the software bugs that I came across couple fo years ago put me off - maybe they are better now but I cannot attest to that.

Also the fuze has a micro SD slot by which you can increase the capacity of the player. It allows for drag/drop and also sync with Media Monkey.

Rockbox is also a very good option.

You may not want to play wav files off of portable devices because of the large file sizes. Flac is a very good and recommended alternative.

Players I have used before settling on Sansa Fuze: ipod & shuffles, Sony, Creative, Cowon, Rockbox