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Originally Posted by Draculaa
Where do you buy songs in FLAC format from? Google shows no good sites.
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I'm a real buckaroo, I roll my own.
Buy audio CD, rip to WAV files, label by hand, run a FLAC conversion program for all the files from a CD at once. I use Audio-Transcoder ($19.95) for bulk conversions, just drag and drop.
Work? A little, but you do it once per track and you can use it as long as you live. Seems a reasonable trade-off to me. You mileage may vary...
(The CD acts as a tertiary back up, I back up my music files and store off-site. No worries about loss...) However, since you seem to be an Apple fan, (nothing wrong with that), I believe Apple has a lossless compression format. Audio-Transcoder will read/convert back and forth from Apple lossless to FLAC. (I've never done it, I don't know how well it keeps the metadata.)
Real audiophiles get vinyl records and a computer with real good DAC (Digital/Analog Conversion) chips and convert at 24 or 32 bits (much bigger file - think the audio equivalent of Blu-Ray) and use FLAC to compress those. I settle for CD quality - 16 bit, 44.1 KB bitrates. Plus I have the CDs...Just rip, compress and go.