How to burn high quality Audio CDs from FLACs ? Which software to use ?

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I have some good quality FLACS on my comp and what is the best way to burn an Audio CD with minimum loss in audio quality ?

Which software do you guys recommend ? Preferably free...

Nikhil
 
Thanks.

So, from the FLAC plugin, I can just drag and drop my FLACs and it will burn as an audio CD ? How good is the audio quality ?
 
Nikhil said:
Thanks.

So, from the FLAC plugin, I can just drag and drop my FLACs and it will burn as an audio CD ? How good is the audio quality ?
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Yes. You can make audio CDs out of FLAC with the help of plugins, just drag and drop.

Quality - I am not sure. some tell this as good as Audio CD, some tell its not. :P
(it may not be like a original CD, its my opinion. There might be some loss while decoding and encoding, but it may not be noticeable)
 
I downloaded the plug in. It's just a single .dll file.

What do I do with it ? I copy-pasted it into NERO BURNING ROM folder where there are a bunch of other DLLs.... but it doesnt work.

and what abt .wavs ? I just drag and drop or do I have to install another plug in ?
 
What do you mean by "quality" ?

If you got FLACs, then convert them to wav and burn those, won't matter which soft you use.

They should be identical to the original !

Unless you mean by quality whether it will play flawlessly on any player then you are asking a different question altogether.
 
blr_p said:
What do you mean by "quality" ?

If you got FLACs, then convert them to wav and burn those, won't matter which soft you use.

They should be incomparable ot the original !

Unless you mean by quality whether it will play flawlessly on any player then you are asking a different question altogether.
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How can it be orginal? when its compressed and decompressed, there might be some loss (eventhough its called lossless).
I mean the sound quality
 
There would be no data loss as such from decoding/encoding irrespective of software unless software itself is bugged. However there might be data loss cos of poor quality burns cos Redbook CD audio has no error correction.
 
Chaos said:
There would be no data loss as such from decoding/encoding irrespective of software unless software itself is bugged. However there might be data loss cos of poor quality burns cos Redbook CD audio has no error correction.
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thanks for your explanation
 
gmano said:
How can it be orginal? when its compressed and decompressed, there might be some loss (eventhough its called lossless).
I mean the sound quality
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Are you serious ?

its bit for bit perfect with FLAC, compress & decompress as many times as you want, only if there is some memory problem which might cause bits to be flipped will there ever be a difference, but thats a system issue and nothing to do with FLAC.

of course i am assuming Nikhil's FLACs are compressed from true Wav copies and not from lossy formats
 
Is it better to convert to WAV and then burn the audio CD or just drag and drop the FLAC files directly ? (using the FLAC plugin for Nero).

What will give me better sound quality ?

@blr_p --- I just downloaded the FLACs from the net. Dont know if they are converted from lossy formats.
 
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