Where can I get FLAC of music? Or a converter...

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Ripping from CD, or finding one of the several boutique online stores that sell in lossless formats.

I recommend some reading on file formats, first, though - digital audio is a complicated world.

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Yea FLAC is pretty big. I have about 8-10 albums and those alone took up 8 GB of space. It's pretty crazy.

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The 'play it safe' view we take here is that when you bought that CD, you bought the rights to the data on that CD - even if you might be downloading data identical to or very similar to what is on your CD, since it did not come from your CD originally, you dont have the right to download it. We dont need any DMCA trouble on this site.

First, read this: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....g-term_archive

Then this: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....the_best_codec.

Then, if you want a comparison of lossless codecs, go here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....ess_comparison

Now, the best way to rip 100% bit exact replica of a CD is using EAC. I recommend giving this guide a read: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....e=EAC_and_FLAC

Now, that's some information on audio codecs and CD ripping guides. You have iTunes songs, so you do not benefit from ripping guides until you get some CDs. If you encode your iTunes songs, what will happen is this

.m4a/.mp3 -> inflate -> .wav
.wav -> .flac bit exact replica of .m4a/.mp3 with more overhead due to the lossless nature of flac. Your flac files is a lossless representation of your lossy music!

Now, think that's bad? Wasted space? What if you re-encode your files? This is what happens.

.m4a/.mp3 -> inflate -> .wav
.wav -> encoder -> calculated what bits to throw away -> .mp3

So you will lose even more information in the file! This is not good.

I hope this helps somewhat.

FLAC is fun stuff. I would just look into it like the detail of the audio world etc.

My FLAC folder is only 32.6GB and that's only 1202 tracks according to Winamp

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It depends. The average FLAC album is actually 250-400MB.

And I know a place you might like.

<.< I am already on.
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