I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.
I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”
I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.
FLAC master race check in.
FLAC on a NAS for self-hosted streaming.
I don’t have good solution for that other than what comes with synology. I guess how badly my collection is catalogued plays a bit of a role.
Physical copy on my phone SD card in 2023 lol
I don’t really notice a difference it just takes up storage
I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
Depending on the Bluetooth code flac is indeed not needed.
Something like mp3 happens before it goes over the air unless you have higher codes like ldac
You’d probably notice it with better audio gear.
Absolutely.
I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.
I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”
I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.
“Boodoodwiddle dah boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, bah dah bow!!!”
I couldn’t believe how powerful it sounded.
I only fucked with flac after that.
You need to do spectral analysis too to see if it’s not upscale from 320bit