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Title: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: phrazelle on February 14, 2005, 11:18:04 AM

Has anyone seen a FLAC and or SHN plugin for Roxio?  I know it converts mp3's to wav before burning, but I want it to convert SHN's or FLAC files to wav before burning.  That way you dont have to spend all day converting and then burning, and then deleting the mass space-takers we call wav's.  Maybe this is a pipe dream, but I know there is some programmers out there who could do this. 

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: Tall Adam on February 14, 2005, 11:19:29 AM

just get burn at once

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: phrazelle on February 14, 2005, 11:20:25 AM

burn at once?

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: chase on February 14, 2005, 11:22:49 AM

i don't think it will be any faster using a plugin, just easier.  the burning software still needs to decompress the files into pcm wave before writing to the disc.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: Tall Adam on February 14, 2005, 11:23:08 AM

http://www.burnatonce.com/

burns flac (maybe shn?) no conversion needed, and its free and simple :)

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: phrazelle on February 14, 2005, 11:26:37 AM

awesome man, thanks.  ease is definitly what im looking for.  i dont like constant writing/erasing to my HDD. 

+T for the help GQJSP

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: dnsacks on February 14, 2005, 12:03:55 PM

Nero will do this too, if you install nero and then install/re-install the windoze flac frontend you'll be able to burn audio disks directly from flac files at whatever speed you'd normally burn wavs (assuming a fairly not-too-old pc)

Shn plugins are available too, but I've found that even on my p4 2.8g/512mb ram pc I need to slow the burns down a ways (8x?) to keep the drive's burn proof (under-run prevention) feature from activating.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: Gordon on February 14, 2005, 12:41:09 PM

yea with nero and flacs it only takes as long as it would to burn audio.  no the shn plugin takes forever.  I still convert shns first.  takes a lot less time than using nero.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: dnsacks on February 14, 2005, 12:49:19 PM

I've now converted all of the shns that I have to the flac format.  It's quick and easy to do with the dbpoweramp program (direct shn>flac conversions).

I now use a squeezebox to play flacs stored on my pc directly through my sony strda5000es -- the squeezebox (www.slimdevices.com) plays flacs directly and sends a spdif digital output (coax or optical) directly to the strda5000es for d>a conversion.  NICE having ~500gb of music stored on my pc upstairs instantly available for playback on my downstairs system.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: dklein on February 14, 2005, 02:20:08 PM

Hey Darren - they've make some nice upgrades to that Slim Devices box - any word on the possibility of 24 bit?  I've been doing all my recording in 24 bit and just picked up a cheap player to play burned DVD-As and get digital out into my DAC - but the Slim box could almost do the trick.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: dnsacks on February 14, 2005, 02:21:56 PM

unfortunately, no word on 24bit compatibility.  My stuff's all at 16bit right now so I bit on the squeezebox.

Title: Re: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program
Post by: dklein on February 27, 2005, 01:13:57 PM

Quote from: dnsacks on February 14, 2005, 02:21:56 PM

unfortunately, no word on 24bit compatibility.  My stuff's all at 16bit right now so I bit on the squeezebox.

thanks for the info +t