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The resulting files may be twice as big and may not support metadata, but they should work universally.Ĭonvert FLAC with e.g. The best choice in terms of quality and compatibility is to simply decode FLAC to uncompressed WAV or AIFF.

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If your favourite software doesn't work with FLAC yet, remember that you can always convert FLAC files to another format. Lately, FLAC's popularity has grown rapidly, but software for FLAC audio has not developed at the same pace. We hope you understand that we don't have the possibilities to 'legally bindingly' inform you about the production process of every album we sell, since we don't have access to each label's modus operandi for each specific record. This is what our term 'original' means in detail. Therefore, should it be essential for you to know whether a 88.2 or 96 kHz album originates from a DSD recording, we must ask you to check this with the respective label or read in the enclosed booklet. Unless looking up each album manually, we won't even know whether it has been DSD once - or maybe just some tracks of it? That information rests with the labels. But since we decided to only deal with PCM files at eClassical (up to now), we write what you will get when you buy the album. And some people will definitely want to have the 'better' DSD originals, no PCM conversions. Of course, there the 'original sample rate' was 2.8224 MHz. We understand that the above may be considered inaccurate for DSD recordings. Even there, we can't know whether a higher version maybe exists. Should they send sample rates lower than the original, they obviously have no other choice (at present).

We trust them that they don't deliver upsampled recordings (contact our support if you think you found a 'black sheep'). But we cannot know each label's signal chain for each album. If they didn't convert rates during the postproduction, this will be the sample rate in which the album was recorded. We ask the labels to give us the highest meaningful quality in which they have the recording.

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The highest bit rate download we offer will have the same sample rate. What we call 'Original sample rate' is the PCM sample rate of the highest bit rate files we receive from the labels. Moreover, many players apparently discard some of the audio data (footnote), so by using DVD-Video, you may lose some of the original file information. (Please note that the final result will depend on how well the conversion process is done). If your 24-bit FLAC file has a different sample rate, you must convert it first. The possible sample rates are only two: 48 and 96 kHz.

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If you want to try, here are links for Windows and Macintosh.ĭVD-Video (the most common DVD format) also supports 24-bit audio, but has some restrictions.

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Neither Windows Media Player nor iTunes currently do this without the need to install additional 'plugins', and even with these, they may only play 16-bit FLACs. If your player doesn't have a 24-bit chip, studio quality FLACs may still play, but reduced to whatever quality the player supports (see its manual).įor this, you need a playing software that supports FLAC. Any FLAC-compatible player should be able to play our 16-bit FLACs. There may also be firmware updates available for your media player that add FLAC support. The FLAC homepage hosts a list of media players and keeps it up to date, better than we could. You need a media player that supports FLAC. Listening on a (more or less portable) media player MP3 has been the most popular format for internet audio for a long time, and MP3 files can be played back by almost any audio soft- or hardware. Here is useful guide with more info about 24 bit FLAC the-definitive-guide-to-24-bit-flac So you need a fast internet connection to download such files, but they're worth it. It ranges up to 192 kHz, which may easily cause the file size for one such album to reach a gigabyte, despite the packing capacity of FLAC. The sample rate of these files varies, depending on the rate that was used for the recording in question.

You will find many recent albums (and many more to come!) in this format. They are substantially superior to CD quality, i.e. Our 16-bit FLACs are always at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, so their audio data is compatible with basically all playback hardware.Ģ4-bit FLACs (studio quality) are the highest quality we can offer. In the case of 16-bit FLAC, the resulting files are still about twice as large as top quality MP3 files, but they contain all the audio that you would get if you bought the physical CD in your local record shop.