Individual said:

I don't get it either.

Normal cd-r capacity is 700MB/80minutes of audio. The bitrate of CD audio is 1411,2 kbit/s meaning a full 80 minutes of audio equals around 826 MB of data. How is this possible, is there something I don't know?? Or do I just suck at maths?

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GilbertC06 said:

You are doing it wrong.

You are ripping CD's in FLAC which causes more but no quality is lost during ripping.

You should be ripping using mp3 or another format.

Original copies of CD's do not use FLAC. FLAC exists because quality is lost in ripping/burning and that format just prevents that but takes up more space doing so.

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The most non-sensical post of the week goes to you!

GilbertC06 said:

You are ripping CD's in FLAC which causes more but no quality is lost during ripping.

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You should be ripping using mp3 or another format.

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Are you arguing that mp3 is native CD then? Try explaining that to the Philips engineers who developed the CD in the early 1980s. I'm sore they'll listen very intently to what you have to say

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FLAC exists because quality is lost in ripping/burning and that format just prevents that but takes up more space doing so.

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pwnasaurus said:

The most non-sensical post of the week goes to you!

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All We Perceive said:

anyone know why you can't fit flac on a burnable cd?  do the manufacturers use different cds for the two models?  how does a flac fit on a store bought cd?  the fuck?

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Individual said:

I don't get it either.

Normal cd-r capacity is 700MB/80minutes of audio. The bitrate of CD audio is 1411,2 kbit/s meaning a full 80 minutes of audio equals around 826 MB of data. How is this possible, is there something I don't know?? Or do I just suck at maths?

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koraks said:

GilbertC06 said:

You are ripping CD's in FLAC which causes more but no quality is lost during ripping.

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Which is why it's smart to rip to FLAC.

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Why not just use WAV?

psi said:

pwnasaurus said:

The most non-sensical post of the week goes to you!

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To be fair, the original post itself is pretty nonsensical.

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Indeed.

240779 said:

koraks said:

GilbertC06 said:

You are ripping CD's in FLAC which causes more but no quality is lost during ripping.

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Which is why it's smart to rip to FLAC.

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Why not just use WAV?

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Uncompressed WAV is about 10Mbyte/minute; FLAC tends to be a bit more efficient in terms of disk space. Otherwise nobody would have bothered to develop any of the compression algorithms and we would have simply stuck with WAV back in the 1990s

240779 said:

CD audio (CDDA) is a semi-analog format.

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koraks said:

EllisDSox said:

You're just using facts to disprove misconceptions, you fool. That's against the rules.

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Oh fuck, I keep doing that

Its Pat said:

And as for DVDs the ones you can buy in stores are known as DVD-5 for roughly 5 gigs, more like 4.7 gigs in practice, while the DVDs that movies come on are known as DVD-9 for you guessed it...  DVD-9s are generally only available to movie and media distributors and not simpleton consumers.

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I believe there's a company that retails DVD-R's that should be playable by non-modded PS2's, but I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, you're right - it's off-topic.

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fee said:

nooneman said:

I used to be a big fan of one of them. I forget the name.

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I used to be so in love with this one girl. I forget her name.

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Hey man, that could really happen!

GilbertC06 said:

Try burning the same songs in both flac and mp3 then. See which takes up more space.

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240779 said:

GilbertC06 said:

Try burning the same songs in both flac and mp3 then. See which takes up more space.

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You believe that MP3 is the closest thing to CDDA audio. You are completely wrong. WAV is the closest thing to CDDA audio. WAV is "standard" audio.* FLAC is the exact same quality as WAV & CDDA, only it is smaller. This is accomplished via advanced mathematical algorithms. FLAC can be decompressed to the original WAV binary, in fact, every time you play the FLAc file, it is decompressed before being played. MP3 is a lot smaller than WAV & CDDA, but it changes the integrity of the audio information.

Biggest                Smaller                          Smallest

CDDA & WAV      FLAC, WavPack, APE, SHN...          MP3, M4A, WMA


The "biggest" formats are simply uncompressed, the "smaller" formats are compressed but are lossless and the "smallest" formats are compressed and lossy. MP3 is totally alien to a CD.

*Windows tunes and beeps are in WAV format because if they were in MP3 format they would be less pure and since they represent the device that is your computer, it makes sense to use the most pure format.

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