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    Vinyl Fundamentalist Forums Moderator poppachubby's Avatar
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    Creative Soundblaster Plug-In

    Hey guys. I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum. I realised yesterday that it won't allow me to load FLAC into the library. This means I have no access to these files with my remote control. I have been searching for a plug-in, but so far no luck. Any suggestions? I have a heap of beautiful FLAC jazz files that I want to access with the remote.

    JoeESP9, does the X-Fi suffer the same problem?

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    Forum Regular harley .guy07's Avatar
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    I just started using flac and I would not know unless you go to creatives web site and look for add ons for you sound card driver that would allow it. otherwise I would not know

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    Phila combat zone JoeE SP9's Avatar
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    I could never get FLAC files to play properly. I've been using AVS audio converter to convert them them to wav files. AVS is freeware!
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    Vinyl Fundamentalist Forums Moderator poppachubby's Avatar
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    Thanks guys. I'll need your HD space before I can convert. I have been playing my FLAC stuff in VLC player. What a PITA...

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    Phila combat zone JoeE SP9's Avatar
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    Until I got some FLAC files from you I had never really tried. I had downloaded some 24/96 FLAC files from HD Tracks but I had converted them to wav files before playing them.
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    Front: Magnepan 1.7, DBX 223SX, 2 modified Dynaco MK3's, 2, 12" DIY TL subs (Pass El-Pipe-O) 2 bridged Crown XLS-402
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    Vinyl Fundamentalist Forums Moderator poppachubby's Avatar
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    FLAC is ideal. The best of all worlds. Excellent quality and great for storage. Alot of these proprietary devices are just settling into MP3, could be a while before we see FLAC catch on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by poppachubby
    FLAC is ideal. The best of all worlds. Excellent quality and great for storage. Alot of these proprietary devices are just settling into MP3, could be a while before we see FLAC catch on.
    Stick with FLAC, if you can, for these reasons.

    I very strongly suspect that WAV's sound superiority is delusional on the part of those who believe in it. My music machine use only 2% of CPU, with the occassional spike to 5%, to play 16/44.1 FLACs in Foobar2000. Of course, higher rez or DSP would increase that a bit. At the same time, latency averages only about 60 uS on my old, slow, XP with only 512k of RAM. In Foobar I set a small, 100k input buffer.

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    Vinyl Fundamentalist Forums Moderator poppachubby's Avatar
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    Yes, I'll just have to organize the files so playback is as easy as possible. MP3 loaded into the remote capability, FLAC into the VLC. Creative really are a double edged sword. On one hand a great product, but the software is a real dissapointment.

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