Will doubletwist support FLAC audio files in the future?

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I would really like this feature as most of my music library has been converted into FLAC lossless.

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Lucas (Official Rep) June 29, 2011 22:47

Paul, just curious, but were you looking for this functionality for doubleTwist on a particular OS or all OS's?

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- Paul Gonzalez June 30, 2011 01:19
  
  All Os's would definitively be nice but Android in particular is where I'd like to FLAC support
  
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Paul, just curious, but were you looking for this functionality for doubleTwist on a particular OS or all OS's?

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Underst8 July 29, 2011 04:58

I'd really like to see this as well. I have lots of apple lossless files I converted to flac and hope to get them all loaded into doubleTwist. I use windows.

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I'd really like to see this as well. I have lots of apple lossless files I converted to flac and hope to get them all loaded into doubleTwist. I use windows.

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mzpenland September 01, 2011 17:32

What folks need to understand is that pretty much all mobile phones (DAC) digital to analog converters are junk so wanting lossless is kind of a moot point.

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What folks need to understand is that pretty much all mobile phones (DAC) digital to analog converters are junk so wanting lossless is kind of a moot point.

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mzpenland September 01, 2011 17:34

not to mention that most headphones, especially without an amp, can't generate a meaningful difference between lossless and non-lossless formats.

But... For folks who do want Android flac support - check out PowerAmp.

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- Paul Gonzalez January 14, 2012 04:08
  
  personally i disagree i notice a difference when listening with my entry level sennheisers but the main thing for me is convennience as justin said i dont want to convert my library. I no longer use doubletwist unfortunately. once they support flac i may consider returning as i paid for airsync lol
  
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- Lucas (Official Rep) January 15, 2012 02:14
  
  Paul,
  
  Part of the issue here is that dT uses the underlying Google-provided media playback service, which older Android OS versions don't support FLAC. We were not allowing the desktop clients to send these (FLAC files) to the Android device given that they wouldn't play in dT or the stock player.
  
  Later Android OS versions now support FLAC decoding so we can revisit our support for FLAC.
  
  Thanks for your continued interest though and providing your feedback. We will revisit FLAC in our upcoming desktop app redesign, which is going to be a major overhaul.
  
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- Paul Gonzalez January 15, 2012 07:08
  
  Thanks for the response its great to know that the staff is listening.
  
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not to mention that most headphones, especially without an amp, can't generate a meaningful difference between lossless and non-lossless formats. But... For folks who do want Android flac support - check out PowerAmp.

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justinmp91 January 14, 2012 02:44

But for those of us with part (or all) of our library in FLAC format, it would save us from having to convert them into a different format to be playable by DoubleTwist.

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