Comments on: On the other side…

by: Scott Carpenter

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:25:31 +0000

Thanks for filling me in, Nick. That helps me think about things more clearly.

by: Nick

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:58:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure WAV is not encumbered. Apparently WAV is (like Ogg) just a wrapper for a variety of audio-encodings, and it’s possible to have a WAV which is encoded using MP3 which is technically still a WAV file, so that would have the encumbrance of MP3. But I assume you mean PCM-encoded WAV files, and I’m pretty sure the reason you’d want to use FLAC over those is that FLAC is a compressed lossless format, meaning it will take up less space than the 700MB or so a full CD would use if you just copied the PCM-encoded audio off it into WAV-wrapped files. I suspect the use of Free in FLAC’s (expanded) name is to differentiate it from other lossless compression formats like Shorten or Monkey’s Audio, not uncompressed formats like WAV or AIFF.

by: Scott Carpenter

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:24:48 +0000

Thanks, caleb. It’s fun to watch things taking off.

by: caleb

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:38:10 +0000

Congratulations on taking the plunge! I run five computers in my household and four at my friend’s agency. Every time a Windows machine gives me some backtalk, I haul off and replace its OS with some flavor of Ubuntu. The current score is Windows 4, Ubuntu 5. Liberty triumphs, one old pc at a time!