First, download and install the FLAC codec that you can find here. Done? Good. After you've installed that, what you download next will depend on the media player in which you wish to play FLAC on. If you use Windows Media Player, either download and install this or this. Either will do. If you use Winamp like yours truly, download and install the FLAC plugin found here. Your Windows Media Player and/or Winamp should now be able to play FLAC files with ease.

FLAC stands for free lossless audio codec. It is an open source, lossless compression algorithm for digital music. It compresses music files to 50-60% of their original size, with no loss in quality. More FLAC information can be found on the FLAC sourceforge site and in this etree FAQ. If you upload FLAC filesets to the LMA, please follow the naming standards to help the checking program here. Directories should be named with .flac16 or .flac24 suffix, not .flac.

You will first need to convert the FLAC files to another format that your burning program is familiar with. Windows users can use the FLAC Frontend, to convert FLAC files to WAV files, which are suitable for burning programs. For Macintosh OS X users, Dan Greuel has created a tool called MacFLAC.

Macintosh: Download and install MacAmp Lite, a multi-format audio player, and then install the FLAC Plugin for MacAmp. Windows: Download and install WinAmp, a multi-format audio player, and then install the FLAC Plugin for WinAmp. Linux or any other UNIX-based architecture: Download and copy "libxmms-flac.so" to your XMMS media player input plugins folder.

FLAC encodes are superior in sound quality to mp3 and AAC. The audio is compressed without any loss in quality (similar to how zip works but with better compression for audio files). This makes FLAC's the highest possible quality for digital downloads. The file sizes are however on average roughly four times the size of the mp3/AAC versions.

FLAC decoding is necessary because the files are compressed. The decoding (or decompressing) of the file is handled in real time by your player's software, while you're listening to the music file.

To play a FLAC file concert, using Win Amp for example, will require your I.T department to install a plugin on your PC. This is easily done. The FLAC software is available free to download from the EBU web-site. Click here for the FLAC exe file.

FLAC files are the highest quality downloads we offer. For more information on FLAC files click here. To play FLAC files Windows users can use the free FLAC plug in for Winamp, which is available with the free FLAC Front-End application. With the FLAC plug in installed, simply open or drag/drop your FLAC files with WinAmp. There is currently no FLAC support for Mac OSs prior to OSX. Mac OSX users can use MacAmplite (1.5b) to play FLAC files.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player.

On the mac, there is a free component to ogg-ify itunes. The freeware VLC Media Player will also play OGG files. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020424233612407

No, normal CDs are CD-DA format; MP3s are in (yes!) MP3 format. Some new Discman-type players will play MP3s, but most don't like low-bitrate files. That means it will play audio CD-Rs (and even then you might expect hardware/media incompatibility due to different wavelengths used on DVD and CD media). Unless your unit specifically claims to play low-bitrate MP3 files you can assume it will not be able to play them at all. Consult your manual for specifics.

QuickTime (or QT Lite or QTA) is required. You should then be able to play .amr files in Media Player Classic. It doesn't work in Windows Media Player and most other players.

Right now some development is happening on MPD which supports these formats as well MP3 and OGG Vorbis. AAC player is in the current beta of podzilla. See the blog entry (http://www.ipodlinux.org/blog/index.php?p=15) for details. There was an April Fool's joke about a bunch of Buddhists ordering a heap of iPods (http://www.ipoding.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=848&mode=thread&order=0). Too bad..

Shorten (.shn) is a lossless compression format. For a list of moe. .shns in circulation, visit the etree site: For more information on the Shorten format visit http://alumni.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html or http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/GroupPubs/Robinson94-tr156/ The Live Music Archive runs a very well maintained FAQ on how to handle all the files you will download, and how to make them playable music for your cd or mp3 player.

You have to install the Haali Media Splitter. The stream can be switched with the A-Key or Green-Button. Don't forget to tick every supported-format checkbox (e.g. "AVI", "MKV", etc) when you install Haali's Splitter.

eagle.scr is the place for settings that should be set initally for your layouts, schematics and libraries when beginning a new drawing. eagle.epf saves all the settings that have been made during work. For example, a special drill menu content because in this project (board) you have to use certain drill diameters. Such things are stored in eagle.epf for the currently opened (layout, schematic, library) editor window.

All vidoes are hosted at Youtube. To view the clips, you will need the free Adobe Flash Player software. You can download the free flash player at this link.

On the mac, there is a free component to ogg-ify itunes. Also vlc plays it. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020424233612407 Other info to follow.