March 12th, 2008

freesound’s bandwidth

The Freesound blog has a discussion on audio codecs and the high bandwidth problems they’re facing.
The most sensible solution seems to be use of flac instead of wav format. FLAC is lossless, unlike MP3; and it’s specially designed for compression of audio files, unlike zip or bz2 or other general-purpose compression formats.

The problem is lack of user-friendly tools. The ones that are available have various drawbacks …

Surely it can’t be that hard to write a thin GUI wrapper for the command line that can convert back and forth?

March 12th, 2008 | Posted in tech

One Response to “freesound’s bandwidth”

  1. jc
    March 13th, 2008 at 4:20 am

    there are already many conversion GUIs available for all operating systems. the windows installer even comes bundled with one called FLAC Frontend.

    http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
    http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html

    also many labels, artists, and online stores are distributing music in FLAC already, e.g.

    http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#music

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