MikeyB71 said:

I've checked this site out--very comprehensive and lots of good info. I am just really beginning to understand a little bit about flac files, and I think they are generally superior to other file types unless, like Ernest said, they were created from poor quality files to begin with. I have been obsessed in the past few weeks with trying to find P boots, but I want to make sure I can get the highest quality files available. Is it safe to say that most of the boots out there are available as flac, or are they few and far between? I'm sure they are becoming more available, but does anyone know if most boots are available in flac?

vitriol recommended Work It 2.0 and 30 Years of Unreleased Funk. grease said they are readily available in flac, so I'll definitely be looking for those. Anyone know how many disks these collections contain? If I'm not mistaken, I think Work It contains 30 disks or so? Or, maybe I should just check out the angelfire site recommended by MikeyB71 and thedigitalgarden site mentioned by luv4u.....

Poiple said:

Flac is a lossless compression codec, so a CD quality file can be compressed to save room, but it won't lose any bits of information in the process like an mp3. Flacs can be converted to and from WAV files for CD burning, or converted to your favorite mp3 bitrate for personal use on an iPod. Flac is the preferred method of distribution for unreleased tracks as it retains the original quality. Some lossy mp3s and WMAs have been re-encoded as Flac, which doesn't degrade the lossy bitrate any further, but converting these again to an mp3 will exacerbate any audio artifacts that the original compression created.