Using *.flac when burning Audio

[roadrunner]

hello everyone,

I have many mp3's on may computer, and now i try to convert everything in flac, so there is no loss when listening... Still, when i drive, i like to have CD "home-burned", just because i don't want to scratch or damage my precious originals, and simply want to have more than one artist on one single CD... anyway... burning mp3 tracks is ok, but flac is not allowed.. is there a way to do it inside infrarecoreder or do i have to keep converting back the flac to mp3 (i spent time to grab everything in mp3, now i spend time to get it in flac, and just want to know if i go on or if i stay mp3'ed )

TIA
Regards

[kindahl]

Hello,

While InfraRecorder doesn't support FLAC internally I believe it could be made to work because InfraRecorder uses Windows Media Player to decode audio before burning audio CDs. I believe burning FLAC files should work if you install a Windows Media Player FLAC codec so that Windows Media Player can play the FLAC files. I haven't tried this myself though.

Ripping audio CDs into FLAC format has been requested by many but unfortunately I haven't had time to implement that yet.

[roadrunner]

I'll try this... So far i use winamp to re-read *.flac, and media player classic doesn't read it... so i'll check this and give a feed back

Thanks for your answer
Regards

[roadrunner]

Well, i tried today (installed the ogg codec, and now MPC can read flac files), but it doesn't work. The format is "not supported". I'll keep on converting the files...

[kindahl]

Thanks for keeping me updated, I'll guess I have to hurry up with the FLAC codec for InfraRecorder then

[ralph63]

Hi roadrunner,

don't waste your time (and your sound quality!) with mp3 conversions. There's a simple way for you to burn FLAC files directly to an ordinary Audio CD using InfraRecorder: Just install "DC-Bass Source Filter" (which you can find here: http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=15). It's a DirectShow Audio filter which enables every capable audio program to use "not-so-common" file formats like e.g. FLAC, True Audio, WavPack, OptimFrog, etc. See the mentioned web site for details.

Caution: Even if you have a 64bit OS, do not use InfraRecorder's 64bit build, if you want to use DC-Bass Source. Since this filter is a 32bit build, InfraRecorder x64 cannot access it, therefore you will get your well-known error "This file format is not supported.". But if you install the x86 version of InfraRecorder and "DC-Bass Source Filter" (even on an 64bit OS), everything will be fine.

There are two minor problems within this solution:
1) The first drawback is the lack of CD-Text creation from the FLAC tags. But in your car that surely is something you can live with...
2) This only works if you have a single FLAC file for every track. If you have a large FLAC file for a whole CD and the correspnding CUE file, InfraRecorder will fail to create the proper CD tracks. It will simply write the whole album as one track on the CD. But that's "by design", since it cannot cope with CUE files. I haven't found a solution for this yet, but there are "mightier" programs which can do that easily. Google is your friend, since I don't want to advertise other CD writers on the InfraRecorder forum.

I hope this will save you a little time.

Cheers!
Ralph

[nihpudjs]

You convert mp3's to flac? This is absolute nonsense. Quality doesn't increase, but filesize will. When you convert audio to lossless formats, the audio source needs to be lossless too.

If you want to burn flac files to an audio cd, convert it to wav first. Thats the only way until IR gets native flac support.

[mtelesha]

hello everyone,

I have many mp3's on may computer, and now i try to convert everything in flac, so there is no loss when listening...

Wait you take MP3 and convert them to FLAC????? That means you have MP3 quality (low) in a Large FLAC file that sounds like a MP3. The only way a FLAC works is if you go from a CD into a FLAC. If you go MP3 to FLAC you are not making a higher quality music file just a larger music file.

-Marc