dBPoweramp adds uncompressed FLAC

Posted by: Aleg on 07 April 2011

Just read that dBPoweramp ripper has added in its latest beta of R14.1 (which is to be released soon) the following option

"also includes a FLAC Uncompressed encoding option (which stores audio uncompressed, for those who want WAVE PCM but with better ID Tagging)."

Interesting option for those who want extensive tagging but also prefer uncompressed WAV

Posted on: 08 April 2011 by Frank Abela

I see it now - the comparisons between uncompressed/compressed flac...

I'm willing to bet the uncompressed flac sounds better.

Regards,
Frank.
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Posted on: 08 April 2011 by Jack

Aleg, thanks for the heads up......

Could be the new ripping format for me......have been ripping in WAV for a little since you advised about tagging capability which can be read correctly by J River. The FLAC gives much more cjoice in terms of players though

Posted on: 08 April 2011 by Steeve

Agreed. Sounds interesting. Could turn out to be the best of both worlds. Thinking ahead, but does anyone know if it will be possible to batch convert compressed FLAC to uncompressed FLAC?

Posted on: 08 April 2011 by Aleg

Yes the dBPoweramp Music Converter can do a batch conversion. You select all your flacs and tell the converter to convert again to flac but with compression level Uncompressed. - Aleg

Posted on: 09 April 2011 by sbilotta

Just one thing regarding the Uncompressed FLAC... I tried it on some Rolling Stones 24-88, but the NDX refused to play it as "unrecognized file format".

Tried playing it also on Foobar and Winamp: same thing.

Am I doing something wrong, or is the DBPoweramp Audio Player the only one that can play them (with the appropriate codec) ?

Posted on: 09 April 2011 by Aleg

I had no problem playing a ripped file nor a converted (compressed to uncompressed) on Mediacentre, Foobar or my PopcornHour A100.

SO I gues something went wrong in your rip / convert.

aleg

Posted on: 13 April 2011 by Tom_W

Originally Posted by Frank Abela:

I'm willing to bet the uncompressed flac sounds better.

Perception is a beautiful thing...you can never be wrong.

Posted on: 13 April 2011 by Hot Rats

Thanks for the heads up Aleg.

R14.1 Beta is now available for download at:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=23193

The beta will not expire until November 2011.

I've just tried it out and I think that FLAC Uncompressed rip sounds better ... then again it could be placebo effect!

Anyone else tried it out?

Posted on: 14 April 2011 by Peter_RN

Originally Posted by Hot Rats:

Anyone else tried it out?

No, will wait until the final is released.

Can’t quite make out the likely difference between this setting and the already present option of 0 (zero) compression; aren’t they the same?

Will be interesting to find out.

Posted on: 14 April 2011 by Aleg

No, level 0 is still a compressed file (there is actualy not much size difference between 0 and 8) this new one is absolutely uncompressed

Posted on: 14 April 2011 by Peter_RN

Hello Aleg

Thanks for that.

It just goes to show you can’t assume anything in this game; but it is interesting.

Peter