flac player for windows ?

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have been seeing some flac audio files around but can't find a player that
will open them on a win2k machine.... any ideas? the winamp thing is broken
right now....

ray
 
thanks a heap - got foobar and it works... but ?why flac? the
files are HUGE...
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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Because they are lossless,
they cannot be compressed to the size of mp3-files (which are lossy).
 
Ray said:
thanks a heap - got foobar and it works... but ?why flac? the files are
HUGE...
Click to expand...

Like someone else said: FLAC files are lossless, meaning they have the same
quality as the original CD or a WAV rip of the CD. They sound *exactly*
the same, because after uncompressing you have the same audio data as the
original CD.

It uses compression that's similar to ZIP or ARJ or RAR. One important
difference with those formats is that it allows you to start playing at
1'30" from the beginning without having to decode all the data before that
(in tech speak: it's "seekable").

If you don't like those huge files, you can always decode them to WAV files
and then encode these using Ogg Vorbis or LAME.
 
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