Why do people love FLAC files so much?

Sir GH wrote: Thank goodness the days of the deaf wielding their ways on the enlightened are over.

Sorry to be a jerk... but complaining about quality never ceases to amaze me.  It'd be like the McDonalds crowd going to a fancy restaurant and complaining to the staff that their food takes too long to cook.
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Point #1. Sorry. We haven't won the war yet. While ever the record companies think it's acceptable to sell mp3's and average joe in the street buys and plays them, mp3 won't die.

Point #2:  That's the funniest analogy I've ever read. Is it copyrighted and can I use it? !!! :)

Haha, it's fair game.. have fun with it!

SirGH and the like tooting FLAC over MP3, I love you guys! It is amazing to see someone complaining about FLAC in this day and age.

I'll tell you this, my MP3 collection used to be made up of 256/320kbps files cause I thought that was pretty good. And to some extent, it was. However, last year I overhauled my collection and recaptured all my CDs in FLAC and wow...the difference in sound is brilliant. Those who remember me on this forum know I'm quite anal about audio quality, qualities, etc. So, it may be a surprise that my song collection was MP3. But there ya go.

Anyway, it's 2011 and when we're downloading videos from Queenzone like there's no tomorrow, I think complaining about the size of a FLAC audio file is a little bit out of date. And perhaps even a little bit ungrateful for the files being made available at all by some kind soul.

Adam.

A band such as Queen whose sound is richly textured and replete with nuances deserves nothing less than lossless files, so FLAC is a perfect digital medium for Queen's sumptuous music. mp3 files are only suitable for disposable pop pap.

It's this simple. I love Queen and want to hear it in the best possible sound quality. I bought the gold disc MFSL remasters and the best vinyls to hear it better. MP3 kills the sound of the music I like listening to. I think it's great that there is some quality control here. Even crappy sounding boots sound crappier when brought down to MP3.
I could get into the details of how MP3 specifically ruines the fullness of Freddie's voice or kills the sound of Roger's crash/ride cymbal etc, but that would be long and drawn out. The point is that I want to preserve this stuff in the best way possible, like many on here. And that is great!

jamster1111 wrote: Why are people so OBSESSED with FLAC files on this site? I mean really???... Whenever someone shares something it always has to be in flac, and whenever it's in mp3, people have a god damn heart attack over it. Why? the increase in quality is so minute on a flac plus each file takes up 5 times as much space as an mp3 file, not to mention more audio players play mp3's. So why? I never understood the big deal and advantage over FLACs. So what if it is lossless?

Hm,  I think you answered on your quesion yourself.
With the same success could be ask, why do you like CD rip but digitization you hate and call fakes

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Adam Baboolal wrote: [/QUOTENAME] Anyway, it's 2011 and when we're downloading videos from Queenzone like there's no tomorrow, I think complaining about the size of a FLAC audio file is a little bit out of date. And perhaps even a little bit ungrateful for the files being made available at all by some kind soul. Adam. [/QUOTE]

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jamster111 really should consider getting one of these :-)

-double post-

I feel old.. I remember when 500 Mb cost twice that much.

I remember when my first PC I got in 1997 had a 3GB hard drive, and good old Windows 95. Woo!

(As an added bonus, I remember using other computers much older than that which had Windows 3.1, and CD-ROM drives that required you to load the CD in a caddy case!)

I feel old.. I remember when 500 Mb cost twice that much.

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alas, i myself once saved up for 2 MB of memory and, i tihnk, a 20 mb hardrive for a commodore Amiga 500.

SHIT, where I live, IN 2014, broadband internet worth A LOT of money, and a hard drive worth A LOT of money too.

My max. download speed is 130 kb/s and my max. upload speed is 40 kb/s. And I'm spending, around U$S 30 every month.

To download an album in FLAC, I need at least 20 minutes...

Looks like I'm living in 2000...

personally I love FLAC..............doesnt take too long to download with cable internet......I got a mp3 player that plays FLAC for like $25 (Sansa Clip Zip! Get the Rockbox firmware for free....awesome combo).........oh yeah and I got a 32gb micro sd card for it too.........:D

Question What do most people here do when they grab a announced download here on the forum? For me headphones are the best experience for me to listen to live gigs (especially the not so great sounding ones) I have noise cancelling "Beats Studio". My devices are a 2nd gen ipod 20gb , Iphone 3 with 30 gb and two iphone 5's 30 gb each. So yes Flac doesn't work for Apple, so i have to transfer them to ALAC, and then make a playlist of each show date. Files are big 30mb average for a song. So of course I will never share in this format but its what i gotta do to listen on my device which happened to be apple products.
How do you guys listen to your live gigs? what deices you guys use. I rarely use the cd format. Because i can hold so many shows when i driving in the car.

Very slightly off topic - there is a really great flac audio player called audirvana does an amazing job with the quality of flac files