

I like FLAC better than WAV because you can store album art in it along with the regular metadata (title, artist, genre, date, composer, album, comment, etc).
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Currently, most portable hardware media players can only play 16-bit FLACs unless you update the firmware to a freeware OS like RockBox ( ).

Pretty much every operating system has some FLAC support available via freeware.įLAC is good for 24-bit or 16-bit storage.
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Most modern software and media players can play FLAC also. The other nice thing about FLAC is that it doesn't collapse the bass to mono like all the other lossy codecs usually do (MP3, MP4/AAC/M4A). The sound quality of the player is reputedly better than iPods and the player is significantly less expensive and has lots of features, including EQ.
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I have a Sansa SanDisk Clip Zip which plays FLAC/WMA/MP3/WAV/Audible/M4A. Good file format support, an excellent interface, easy navigation, lots of effects and real-time previewing: ocenaudio is a top quality audio editor which delivers in every area.FLAC is supported on SoundCloud and some portable media players such as those made by SanDisk, the co-inventors of flash drive media storage. And any effects you choose will also be applied to those areas, leaving everything else untouched. Click Play and ocenaudio will play only those areas.

Just hold down Ctrl, then click, drag and release to create multiple selections. Perhaps even better, you're able to select and process multiple areas in a single operation. Choose the 31-band equalizer, say, and you can play your chosen sample, then make any adjustments you need, and hear the results right away. Not sure what these might do? No problem: ocenaudio offers real-time previewing. It's easy to trim, cut, copy or paste audio, and there are a host of effects: fades, gain, normalize, filters, equalizers, delay/ flanger/ chorus/ reverb/ vibrato, compressor/ expander/ limiter/ noise gate, and many, many more. You can set Play to loop, and interestingly this works in real time: you can have ocenaudio looping through one segment, then select something else, and it'll immediately play that instead. Clicking Play then plays that area alone. Spin the mouse wheel to zoom in and out an overview window shows where the current view is located within the file, and you can move your zoom window by clicking and dragging.Įxplore the menus and you'll find there's support for vertical zoom, too, although the keyboard shortcuts can be a little cumbersome (Vertical Zoom In is Win+Alt+Shift+Up).Ĭlicking and dragging selects an area, as you'd expect. But you can also switch to a spectral view, or display both views one above the other.īasic navigation is quick and easy. Whatever you've selected is initially displayed in the usual waveform view.

It can handle individual files, folders or playlists, even extract audio files from playlists, and everything you've opened is displayed in a neat toolbar on the left-hand side. Try opening a file, for example, and you'll find the program supports a vast number of audio formats (including raw and text-based), video files and URLs. There's a lot of competition around in this area, but ocenaudio stands out from the crowd immediately.
