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freesound’s bandwidth

ReplytechMarch 12th, 2008Joshua Mostafa

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?

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