A combination of .flac and .cue files is a highly popular format in backing up or sharing music. It is especially suitable for creating backups of your music collection, as it offers 100% original sound quality, unlike for example the MP3 format. The .flac audio files are typically accompanied by a .cue file, which is used to store the CD track layout information. Handling these files however can sometimes be a bit tricky, especially on the Linux platform. FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec, .fl...

How to rip your music CDs to FLAC MP3s are convenient, but no matter how high the bit rate, they're still lossy music files. We'll show you how to rip your music CDs to FLAC files, which are superior in sound quality. MP3s are very convenient and supported by many devices from portables to car audio systems. But no matter how high the bit rate of an MP3 file, it's still a lossy format, meaning some of the sound quality is lost during the conversion from a CD. FLAC is a lossless audio code...