Audacity Forum

headphonica wrote:does that mean that windows can't play FLAC-files that are larger than 2GB?

I wouldn't have thought Windows would be able to play them but I've never tried. The machine would have to be using NTFS file system as FAT has a 4GB limit for any type of file.

ha!
i used the crunchbang linux #! live CD... http://crunchbanglinux.org/
as crunchbang has audacity included i didn't need to install anything on this vista[sic!]-machine...

the filesize is 4GB now and it does play in windows [winamp].
it was even possible to do the tagging in windows [which is quite more fun than on linux].

thanks steve for your kind help!!!

and thanks to audacity for this incredible piece of software!

headphonica wrote:it was even possible to do the tagging in windows [which is quite more fun than on linux].

There's an application for Linux called "EasyTAG" which makes it more fun.

i tried easytag intensively [headphonica is a netlabel with 70+ releases so far] but there are some very important & useful features missing.
so i have mp3tag [freeware] under wine... > http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
interestingly the only [!] software i have installed under wine...


btw. here it is [4GB / 14hours]:
http://www.headphonica.com/datas/Ergo_P ... Cycle.flac
[released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
and the artwork [DIN A3 double-sided, printable pdf]
http://www.headphonica.com/datas/hpcd073_artwork.zip
let me know if you consider these links to be spam and i'll delete it instantly, ok?

I'm OK with the links, but I'll not be downloading the 4GB file just yet because I'm a bit short on disk space.
Nice artwork. There's not much room to put a credit for Audacity, but perhaps you could include one on your web site. This is not a requirement, but might be a nice idea - perhaps something next to the flac download link such as "flac file created with Audacity running in CrunchBang Linux Live"

i placed that link but actually i'm not sure if this is relevant information for our "customers".
have to think about it...

It was just a thought - I always think it's a good thing to give credit to open source, especially when it has provided a means to achieve something that would have been difficult, prohibitively expensive, or impossible to do without it. I notice that you have used ogg, flac, audacity, Linux and possibly a lot more free open source software.
You could be right about the credit as it is now being of little relevance, but I was just suggesting that open source software may deserve some credit somewhere.

yes, there's a gap between open source and creative commons but they have much more in common than they realize:
http://twitter.com/headphonica/status/7167009007
and hopefully they'll find each other in the near future - our conversation here is already part of this processs, i think/hope.

nevertheless, the "normal folks" [we're in the windows-topics here, right? -> right!] out there do not even know there's something like flac, you know?
with reading this thread they get to know that flac can do what even wav can't.

oh, there's so much work to do...

i mentioned audacity & crunchbang in this interview with dradio/breitband (german) 2 or 3 weeks ago:
http://breitband.dradio.de/horspiele-de ... music-u-a/
[from 4:30 min on]