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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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