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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Saturday 01.01.22 - 17:47, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> BTW, my PC's can't seem to play FLAC files directly (via
 AA>> VLC player) The playback stops/stalls every few seconds.
 AA>> But if I convert to AppleLossless, the playback is much
 AA>> better (iTunes).

 WvV> Apparently your hardware isn't fast enough to decode it
 WvV> on the fly? A bit strange, but I don't know what kind of
 WvV> hardware you're using. ;-) Maybe it's encoded with the
 WvV> maximum compression level, which is too much for your
 WvV> hardware?

Could be. This was some time ago, and I didn't really  
understand how to determine the FLAC compression details. Now I  
do; AnyConverter seems to offer viewing compression levels and  
selecting them. Prior to that I simply took it for granted that  
FLAC was FLAC.  Anyway.. I decided that I wouldn't really be  
interested in playing raw FLAC files on those devices anyway.  
My plan is to eventually commission a spare PC to be my media  
player connected to the hifi. I'm far from that point still.   
Spotify is making me a little lazy to proceed.

 WvV> Is it one of the files from Bjorn? I could try to re-
 WvV> encode it with a lower flac compression level. If you're
 WvV> interested in a test?

Perhaps that might be interesting to try. That would save me  
the trouble of converting them!  

Just let me know where I can grab a few files and I'll try them  
on the aforementioned XP machines.
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  ../|ug

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