Winamp + FLAC = me :confused;

[Ruptga]

I'm not new to Winamp, but I've never been much of a power user with it. I want to try FLAC instead of MP3, so I got the FLAC CD Ripping encoder plugin and ran it, but it seems to simply be making a playlist of my CD instead of ripping the disk to FLAC. But, this plugin is highly rated and has been downloaded many times, so I figure I just don't know what I'm doing. Winamp's help files didn't help, and there's no help files for the plugin that I can find, so what do I need to do?

 

[Ruptga]

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[keeftea]

simply, mp3 is lossy and flac is lossless meaning no loss in quality. It is about compression. Flac frontend is probably the most used. I have been using traders little helper lately and love it, used mostly by tapers of live music.

Winamp has a plugin that allows u to play flac w/out converting to wav. I have to say i havent used winamp in some time. So it might be new.

hope this helps

 

[Pabster]

If you get the FLAC package from Sourceforge, a Winamp plugin is included.

I'm fairly sure some versions of Winamp have it bundled as well.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Winamp has come with flac included for as long as I remember =/

I think it must be that plugin causing issues. Remove it and use the default flac encoder/decoder.

 

[Ruptga]

I already tried that, it still didn't work. Maybe I should just uninstall/reinstall winamp?

 

[wazzledoozle]

Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
I already tried that, it still didn't work. Maybe I should just uninstall/reinstall winamp?

Yeah, do that. Make sure to delete the winamp folder before reinstalling too. (delete settings)