[Nupe The Ripper] Saturday, June 16, 2012 6:48:11 AM
That means a lossless audio rip. MP3, WMA etc. are "lossy" formats, i.e. some of the audio data (usually high frequencies, which are harder to hear) is lost when the tracks are compressed to those formats. WAV, which is essentially what is found on commercial CDs, has no loss of data ("lossless") but is huge in size: a typical music track can easily take over 40MB of space. The DVD equivalent for this is LPCM, which is also the format found on Live Vengeance '82.
FLAC, then, is a compression format which reduces the size of WAV tracks without causing any loss of audio data, and when decompressed the audio quality is just as good as in the original lossless source. Of course, the size is still much bigger than lossy compresed tracks, but it's only about 60-70% of the uncompressed source.
You could compare this to different image formats. WAV would be the equivalent to BMP: no loss of data and looks good (if used as the original format), but huge in file size. MP3/WMA would be the equivalent of JPG: doesn't look as good as the original but the file size is small. And FLAC would be the equivalent of PNG: looks just as good as the original BMP, but the file size is smaller (but still bigger than the equivalent JPG).
Oooh sounds nifty, and like it was a real labour of love! One question, what is a 'flac' rip?
guidogodoy wrote:
YEAH! After a number of days trying to get a perfect "flac" rip of the JP DVD 1982 Live Vengeance, I got it! Perfect audio gapless rip. A big thanks to the person who got me started on the project. Long hours but I couldn't be happier with the final product. I'll share with friends. Send me a PM.
In my ears as I type!
