Hd flac

[MMBL622]

What is HD FLAC? What are the difference between normal FLAC file and HD FLAC file? If HF FLAC file sounds much better than FLAC?
Can I use dBpoweramp to rip my CD to HD FLAC file? How? THX.

[mville]

What is HD FLAC? What are the difference between normal FLAC file and HD FLAC file? If HF FLAC file sounds much better than FLAC?

Do you have a reference to or where did you hear of, HD FLAC?

[mville]

Can I use dBpoweramp to rip my CD to HD FLAC file? How?

You can rip a standard audio CD, 16-bit, 44.1kHz to a flac file (lossless).

If by HD FLAC you mean a hi-resolution flac, you can convert the ripped CD to a higher bit depth and sample rate, but you won't gain anything, e.g. you won't get higher quality, just larger file sizes.

[garym]

Maybe he means a High-Res FLAC file such as a 24/96 or 24/192 FLAC file that was purchased from some on-line store (e.g., HD Tracks) or obtained from some other source. These are FLAC files and they are high-res. But as mville points out *ripping* a CD that is 16/44.1 will produce a regular FLAC file that is 16/44.1. Turning it into a 24/96 or 24/192 will only make the file larger without changing anything about the actual audio in the stream.

[mville]

Maybe he means a High-Res FLAC file such as a 24/96 or 24/192 FLAC file that was purchased from some on-line store (e.g., HD Tracks) or obtained from some other source. These are FLAC files and they are high-res.

That is what I assumed, but I wanted to be sure.

[MMBL622]

See this:

http://help.metallica.com/support/so...-alac-alac-hd-

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=72966.0

[mville]

See this:

http://help.metallica.com/support/so...-alac-alac-hd-

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=72966.0

Yes, marketing nonsense. FLAC is an audio codec used to encode/decode audio files in the flac audio file format, where the digital audio is compressed, with no loss of quality (lossless). For more info, have a look here: what is FLAC?

FLAC files can be of differing bit-depths and sample rates, the most common being 16-bit, 44.1kHz as this is the bit-depth, sample rate of red book audio CDs. Other examples include 16-bit, 48kHz or 24-bit, 96Hz or 24-bit, 192kHz.

In recent years we have seen the introduction of hi-resolution audio files, where the bit-depth and sample rate is higher than 16-bit, 44.1kHz. True hi-res files will be created from hi-resolution sources e.g. recorded, mixed, mastered or re-remastered sources, not from red-book audio CDs.

Hi-res audio is available in many formats including DVD-Audio discs, DVD-Video discs, SACDs, Blu-ray audio discs and file downloads.

So, Flac-HD or HD Flac are just hi-resolution flac files, with a fancy marketing name.