wessman
January 31st, 2003, 04:03 AM
FLAC Joins The Xiph Family
from the with-hard-drives-this-cheap dept.
posted by timothy on Wednesday January 29, @13:33 (tech)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1717259
[0]Ancipital writes "Xiph.org (of Ogg Vorbis fame) have today announced that the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) project has joined the Xiph rebel alliance. The [1]full story and press release can be found at the Xiph site. (FLAC is nice, because it gives you pristine lossless audio at roughtly 50% size reduction over uncompressed WAVs- you can store them on your hard drive/wherever and then transcode down to a lossy format when you need portability, yum!)"
Links:
0. http://tyranny.demon.co.uk
1. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/flac.html
from the with-hard-drives-this-cheap dept.
posted by timothy on Wednesday January 29, @13:33 (tech)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1717259
[0]Ancipital writes "Xiph.org (of Ogg Vorbis fame) have today announced that the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) project has joined the Xiph rebel alliance. The [1]full story and press release can be found at the Xiph site. (FLAC is nice, because it gives you pristine lossless audio at roughtly 50% size reduction over uncompressed WAVs- you can store them on your hard drive/wherever and then transcode down to a lossy format when you need portability, yum!)"
Links:
0. http://tyranny.demon.co.uk
1. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/flac.html