Thread: mp3>FLAC?
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Old 2007-01-25, 10:43 AM
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Re: mp3>FLAC?

Well, it *can* be done, but you would gain nothing. You would be taking something lossy, your mp3, and blowing it up into a huge file, the flac. Flac is usually used to seed lossless files. If you made your mp3 into a flac file, you would still have a lossy file only it would be about 6 times the size of your mp3.

When someone says they want it in flac format, you can be pretty sure that what they are really saying is they want the show in a *lossless* format, not a lossy format, such as mp3. So, I would tell those people that they show you have is in mp3, not a lossless format, and so you really can't share it in flac format.
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