Originally posted by: GoodMusician
.rar is like .zip except a more commonly used one these days.
Just download winrar
Lossless mp3's are not truly lossless and are still ok in quality but they're ok.
FLAC is like wav but different format that makes it a smaller file. You have to download the update to winamp so that FLAC will play.
As for updated, I've been busy with some things, but things are comming along.
.rar is like .zip except a more commonly used one these days.
Just download winrar
Lossless mp3's are not truly lossless and are still ok in quality but they're ok.
FLAC is like wav but different format that makes it a smaller file. You have to download the update to winamp so that FLAC will play.
As for updated, I've been busy with some things, but things are comming along.
FLAC is a lossless compressed WAV. So unlike mp3, there's no quality loss. WAV is fully uncompressed. You should be able to decompress the FLAC files to WAV files and then burn those on a CD as an Audio CD. Again, the advantage is that you don't lose any quality. If you did that with mp3, you'd end up with missing information since mp3 throws away information in order to get a smaller file size.
rar is commonly used in newsgroups since you can split a large file into multiple rar files (that's really what rar's claim to fame is). Other than that, zip is still the dominant form of compression.