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High Def Delight

July 14th, 2008

FLAC to Apple Lossless on OS X: XLD

I’m a big fan of FLAC, the super-high quality, Free Lossless Audio Codec. I have a bit of my music stored in FLAC. However, my iPod doesn’t support FLAC as it stands: the highest quality format is Apple Lossless, so I’ve been using that for a lot of my modern music.
Even some artists […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 3 comments

July 9th, 2008

It’s time to ditch MP3

Since the days of Napster, the Internet has been flowing with this magical, wonderful beast known as “MP3″. What is it, exactly?
Well, it’s a compression standard dating back to 1991 that shrinks the size of audio by throwing away parts we don’t hear very well. The higher the compression ratio, the more information […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 2 comments