Hello. Since I'm really new to all this, I was just curious about the FLAC files that I see floating around this site, and I was wondering if someone could tell me how I could do this from my CDs. I have some computer files that are WAV format, but don't know how to convert those to FLAC either, so if someone can help, I can put the soundtracks up here for everyone to have.

Thanks, Steve

A good starting point https://xiph.org/flac/

OK, so I went over there, and it said that I can rip any CD with Winamp, which I have, but I cannot see how to do that. There is no tab for ripping, no tab for converting WAV or MP3 to FLAC. Can you help me?

FLAC Frontend: New FLAC Frontend (http://flacfrontend.sourceforge.net/)

Rip to WAV with Exact Audio Copy, convert with FLAC Frontend. Really simple and straightforward!

Nice reading, I was looking for something like this for ages.

I tried EAC in the past, but for some reason I got a bunch of read errors no matter what the CD was, or which drive I was using. I couldn't detect any errors in the audio, but still, it seemed odd. I suppose my method is a more roundabout way of doing it, whereas EAC can do it in one go. But here it is anyway. If I need to grab something off a CD, I use Nero to save it as a WAV file or files if there are a bunch of them. Wav is actually fine for me. However, if I wanted to convert it/them to FLAC, I would use the command FLAC.EXE from DOS.

Thanks for all the great help, everything worked out fine. :)

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you can use OpenCL to encode to FLAC, using flacCL (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=64628&view=findpost&p=870723) (formerly FlaCuda).

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you can use OpenCL to encode to FLAC, using flacCL (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=64628&view=findpost&p=870723) (formerly FlaCuda).


Good Lord! The Nerdometer is off the scale! Actually that's quite a cool tool :)

I use dBpoweramp Music Converter (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm). Quick and easy, but not free

I use dBpoweramp Music Converter (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm). Quick and easy, but not free

What do you mean with "not free"? I have it for free... I guess... :(

franzito,
Full version of dBpoweramp Music Converter & CD Ripper cost $39
For more details, see here (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/purchase.htm)

Thanks for information!

Yeah, thank you for this info I've been wanting to try making some FLACs for a while myself

I use xRecode II. Drag-and-drop files, choose an audio codec (if flac, then you can specify the lossless compression amount) and go!

Thanks!!

For Mac users out there, XLD (http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html) is a good bet.