Devices playing FLAC [LWN.net]

Devices playing FLAC

Posted Nov 8, 2007 22:23 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111)
In reply to: Devices playing FLAC by bfields
Parent article: Codecs cause Fedora pain

For a hard disk device, think read-ahead caching. But even without that, you just have to hit the disk a lot more for each minute of flac music.

I rip all my music to flac, and then convert a subset to ogg for portable use.

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Devices playing FLAC

Posted Nov 9, 2007 18:58 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Indeed.

Also there's repeat modes (repeat-this-track and A/B repeating often use 
short enough spans to be entirely in RAM with Ogg) and users asking for 
short rewinds and so on.

All my CD music is stored in FLAC as its primary form (it lets me compact 
the huge CD pile down to a fairly small stack, which fits on a small hard 
drive these days), but is converted to Ogg for portable use. This turns a 
250Gb lump, far larger than any player, to a 25Gb lump which fits on even 
a small hard drive based player such as a 30Gb ipod.

I *really* don't want to have to play chop-and-change with my music 
collection, ever. The whole lot should be on the portable device.