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Originally Posted by Manabi
If it's really FLAC, then any player that supports FLAC should work fine, not just their proprietary player. And it's pretty easy to convert FLAC to a codec that works in popular media players like iTunes. I've signed up and once I get an E-mail for the free download page I'll try it out and report back. So far I've only received an E-mail telling me of the wonderful free benefits, containing no link to this month's freebies.  |
I finally got around to downloading this month's Naxos freebie, and I can report that they
are normal FLAC files!
No need for their proprietary player at all. You can use any player that supports FLAC. If you don't have one that works for FLAC already,
foobar2000 is an excellent freeware audio player, although the interface can take some getting used to. There are other players as well, but I've not tried any of them personally.
This also means you can easily convert the FLAC files back into WAV files and burn them to a CD. The result will be the exact same quality as the commercial CD would be.
FLAC Frontend is open source software that'll handle converting FLAC to WAV files for you, and most CD burning software should support making audio CDs from WAV file sources.
If you want to just convert them into MP3 files to use in your current audio player, you can use an open source program called
Flac Squisher. Just pay attention during the install, SourceForge has bundled adware in installers in the past. So don't click OK blindly.