@inanedirk @bestiaexmachina #Plexamp is really great at handling #FLAC as well.
Store FLACs on your big ole #NAS for listening at home on the hi-fi, then specify settings on your phone so that when you store songs/playlists locally, you get the lossy versions while on the go.
Morning Fedi! Opinions on the DSD music format? I hear about it from places like this: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop
But one of my friends say it's a pointless format because you can't really hear the difference, so it's better to get FLAC.
I have the same track from an old record from 1967 recorded at the same volume with the same settings.. EXCEPT different phono preamps.
which sounds better?
file 256:
https://static.zog.net.au/black-forest-256-96k.flac
file 869:
https://static.zog.net.au/black-forest-869-96k.flac
files are 96KHZ 24bit flac files, recorded with an Allan and Heath mixer and normalised in Audacity, no other treatment.
one is a second longer but otherwise the same music.
It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC
Übrigens: Wenn ihr mit EasyTAG aus FLACs Coverbilder rauslöscht, werden sie nicht kleiner! Dafür müsstet ihr sie einmal erneut durch den #FLAC-Encoder jagen. Das mach ich mittels #soundKonverter aus KDE. Gegebenenfalls sample ich damit auch verrückte HD-Audios von 24-Bit auf 16-Bit runter. Dafür oben unter "Benutze Plugin:" SoX statt FLAC wählen und dann in den Einstellungen von SoX "Qualität der Sample-Rate-Änderung: Sehr hoch" wählen! Außerdem natürlich dann FLAC-Kompression auf L8.
PROFIT!
Currently listening to music whilst ripping the last of my CD collection to FLAC format. Finally graduating from MP3. Took me long enough.
I just bought a lifetime #plex pass, after trying it for 6 months or so. I only use it for #plexamp to stream #music #flac from my #synology #nas to my #linux laptop, #rpi with #allo #boss2 #dac and #android phone. I also created an account for my almost 80-year-old father so he can join my server and library.
I came from #roon which I enjoyed a lot, but due to different reasons I made the switch. Plexamp provides such a seamless experience, I really can't wish for more. Keep up the good work!
To make things easier, I coded this bash script to convert my archive, and it’s been a lifesaver:
https://github.com/Ardakilic/flac-to-16bit-converter
It uses SoX in the background and is essentially a simple iteration wrapper. It checks the bitrate and sample rate, transcodes if necessary, and just copies the file if no conversion is needed.
Finally found a CD ripper for Linux – Whipper – with the goal of creating accurate copies, rather than doing it fast.
It's a command line tool, which may sound daunting, but after running a few commands to calibrate the settings to your CD-ROM, it's as easy as typing "whipper cd rip" to rip to FLAC with metadata from MusicBrainz. Very nice!
Today transcoding mystery: FLAC sounds as noise. Decoding it to WAV, PCM data looks like a valid DTS-stream, it decodes fine and it's music 
Real happy with the latest version of the #tidarr app (running via #docker).
The latest version is super fast in downloading and pushing the content up into #plex
Nothing like #tidal with #tidarr to refresh my local lib to full #flac
Time to enjoy some more old tunes in super high bit rate via #plexamp
Compliments to Mr. Clément for his work with Tidarr solution: https://github.com/cstaelen/tidarr
Top 9 Albums I've been shoving down my earholes over the last month.
track info @last_fm
collage tapmusic.net
Siiiiiiiiiii!!! Por fin, gracias emule #pearljam #letsplaytwo #flac
Apple added OPUS and FLAC support to AudioToolbox a while ago (iOS 17), but for some reason AVPlayer does not support it.
While I appreciate it, it feels very half ass. It’s like they want to use it internally (iMessage Audio Messages are using OPUS), but they don't want to incentivize a larger adoption of it.
So if you want to use OPUS to play audio, you need to build the whole HTTP Streaming mechanic on your own.
#apple #iosdev #opus #audio #flac #xiph
Also trying to sell my Pono Player from the sunny days when Neil Young tried to create interest in high quality audio. Sadly, the whole infrastructure buckled under the weight of corporate greed from outside, but it was always a nice little player.
#neilyoung #pono #ponoplayer #flac #flak #24bit #audio #music
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