Topic: Flac/SHN plugin for burning program

[phrazelle]

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. 

[Tall Adam]

just get burn at once

[phrazelle]

burn at once?

[chase]

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.

[Tall Adam]

http://www.burnatonce.com/

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

[phrazelle]

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

+T for the help GQJSP

[dnsacks]

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.

[Gordon]

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.

[dnsacks]

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.

[dklein]

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.

[dnsacks]

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

[dklein]

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