I'm having trouble. I am new to FLAC. I downloaded FLAC Front End Program. It looks pretty simple, But I keep getting a RUN TIME ERROR when I go To Decode The Files...Help Please



Thanks,.

Soulsurvivor

If you are only decoding them to MP3 or another lossy format try using Switch Audio Convertor from NCH Software [www.nch.com.au]

It's the best program I could find for all audio format conversions.

Switch also decodes to .wav

Why decode? You can listen to FLAC with lots of players, and FLACs are great to burn them on a CD!
When you start dealing with bootlegs, you download everything in MP3. But then you suddenly find out you're harddrive is big enough (+ burnt CDs or DVDs) and say "Damn, why did I download all this MP3?!".

FLACs are for true rockers and someday you will also collect them (yeah, I can't help myself... good quality, bad quality, listenable, unlistenable, shitty perfomances, legendary perfomances.... you gotta collect 'em all!).

How do you burn Flac to CD?

1. If for storage then as burn as a data disc for DVD

2. If for playing and you use Nero, install the flac plugin and it will burn the flacs as a playable CD, instead of decoding to wav then burning to CD, basically just misses a step out in the process.

3. For decoding flacs try Traders Little Helper (TLH).

4. Easy CD-DA Extractor will convert flacs straight to mp3 without decoding the wav step.

Oh yes, Amused is definately right, you end up backing up your flacs or shn to data DVDs then start collecting ext. hard drives to play them direct. Me, I don't burn CDs anymore, only Video. Foobar or winamp will play your flacs,shn direct.

Thanks. I use Nero. I´ll try it

Download Foobar 2000,its free and will play and burn any format

I dont want to change to mp3 I want to burn in flac. If I dowmload FLAC from edmund don't I have to decode to burn ?




SOULURVIVOR

No you DON'T have to decode to burn. Read breadfan's reply again

If you're working with Windows Vista,run the FLAC Frontend program as the administrator by right clicking on the program shortcut and selecting the "run as administrator" option.

Just a repeat, if you download flac files and want to burn directly to CD by using Nero, this along with others can be found here;

[www.bitburners.com]

of course you can still decode the flac to wav and then burn to CD using traders Little Helper from here;

[tlh.easytree.org]

FLAC Frontend also decodes FLAC to WAV (which is what I use it for). I have never tried to decode to other formats but,it may also give you lossy options.

On Macs ToolPlayer is great to both playing and encoding.

I´m trying to find a link to flac plugin for Nero. Tried breadfans link. No good. Please.

[www.bitburners.com]
no good really?

[www.flac.org]
[www.simplehelp.net]

OK. The links good. But after download, I can´t open the file to install.
What is a poor boy to do?

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jagger50
OK. The links good. But after download, I can´t open the file to install.
What is a poor boy to do?

Unzip then :

just copy nxMyFLA.dll to

\\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins

Looking for assistance. I´ve downloaded and unzipped to desktop the flac plugin file for Nero. How do I copy the file to the above mentioned directory by breadfan. I wish to burn flac files to disc with Nero. Many forward thanks.

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jagger50
Looking for assistance. I´ve downloaded and unzipped to desktop the flac plugin file for Nero. How do I copy the file to the above mentioned directory by breadfan. I wish to burn flac files to disc with Nero. Many forward thanks.

click on the file on your desktop, right click to get your context menu, select copy.

in explorer go to My Computer, local disk (c):\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins, right click and select paste. The file should now show in AudioPlugins.

You will also see in the folder a lot of other .dll files.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008-06-01 17:07 by breadfan.

Thanks breadfan.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008-06-01 17:33 by jagger50.

It works. Just burnt my first CD in flac. Many thankies breadfan.

well done, thats great news, should save you time when burning cds.

It´s something I´ve never really thought about. Someone suggested FlacFrontend. So I thought I´ll use that. Then this thread came up. Why decode. What´s the point. Been downloading everything from Dime for nearly two years now. Burnt all in wave. What a pillock. But I´m glad you helped. It´s one of the things I most enjoy about this forum. Isn´t it strange that it took someone (BV) from one of the lowest populated countries in the world, to come up the the world´s best RS site. But I´m glad he did.><

don't worry about it, same thing happened to me

I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses the word 'pillock', you don't hear it that often any more ><