FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years

An anonymous reader writes "The Free Lossless Audio Codec, FLAC, loved by audiophiles for its lossless fidelity has been updated to version 1.3.0. FLAC is an audio format similar to MP3, but 'lossless', meaning that audio compressed in FLAC doesn't suffer any loss in quality. FLAC v1.3.0 is the first update in almost 6 years and it is also the first release from the new Xiph.Org maintainer team." Big new feature: ReplayGain works for sampling rates up to 192kHz so you can finally control the volume of your obsessively ripped LPs.

Comments

Re:No updates in 6 years?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if that because no one cared or because it was a solid piece of software...

I wonder if your mom dropped you as a baby, or if you worked hard to become stupid.

Latest and greatest?

[garyoa1]

Funny thing is I remember when reel to reel was touted as much better than vinyl. Then CD's were touted as a hundred times cleaner than vinyl or reel to reel. Then dvd's were superior to cd's. (Then everyone used mp3's anyway)

Now... we're back to vinyl.

Gotta love marketing.

Lossless is impossible with digital

[ls671]

Lossless is impossible with digital. You have virtually infinite ways to groove an old LP record. With digital, there is a very finite ways to set the bits to zero or one.

That's a reason why old musician and audiophiles usually prefer LPs. They say they are better with harmonics and they say they can tell the difference, especially with instruments like the violin.

Personally, I find that a brand new high quality LP played on a high end sound system sounds better than numeric, even with no compression at all (raw) formats.