Foobar/EAC/Flac Question

Devlon
Devlon Posts: 355
edited June 2013 in Going Digital
Well, I have given up on being able to install FLAC into foobar2000. To make a long story short, I have tried everything. Wasapi on the other hand loaded just fine into foobar. I was able to load Flac into EAC (Exact Audio Copy) without a hitch as well. I have a number of CD's now ripped to Flac via EAC. I am using foobar to play these flac files created by EAC. My question: Because my foobar does not contain a Flac exe. file is foobar playing in Flac format the music I ripped to Flac with EAC? Or, do you still have to have Flac encoded within foobar to truly play Flac files in foobar not matter where they originated from?
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  • intangible
    intangible Posts: 262
    edited June 2013
    Foobar plays FLAC files natively. If you want to encode files into FLAC, you will need to point Foobar to the FLAC encoder, as you found out. Just toss a copy of FLAC.exe into the Foobar folder and find it in the window manager when prompted.
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  • Devlon
    Devlon Posts: 355
    edited June 2013
    Thanks intangible. EAC works great. Convert wav to flac pretty easily. Never have been able to get flac.exe into foobar though, but it's not a problem with EAC. Foobar2000 has wasapi installed. I'm assuming Windows 7 automatically reads that?
    Living Room: HK AVR 354 as pre/pro, 2 x Polk Audio Micropro 4000, Adcom GFA-7500, 2 x Mirage OMD-15
    2 x Mirage OMD-5, 1 x Mirage OMD-C1, APC H15, Sony S790, Philips 52" LCD, Beogram 3000, FAT (Firestone Audio Tobby DAC), Harmony One

    Den: Sherwood R-972,as pre/pro, 2 x Velodyne SPL-1000R, 3 x Crown Drivecore XLS1500, 2 x Polk Audio Lsi9
    1 x Polk Audio Lsic, 2 x Polk Audio Lsifx, Sony S790, APC H15, Dspeaker Dual Core 2.0, W4S DAC 2, Keces DA-151
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  • intangible
    intangible Posts: 262
    edited June 2013
    If you have Foobar's output set to WASAPI then it should be good to go.
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