Kodi VS FLAC

Kodi Reviews

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Kodi mentions (100)

• Old Business

  I prefer Kodi: https://kodi.tv/ It is free and open sourced and won't use DRM or phone home on you. Nothing comes out on DVD anymore, everything is Video Streaming paid per month or year. - Source: Hacker News / about 21 hours ago

• The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show: 302-Self-Hosted 4: The Next Level

  Https://keepassxc.org/ Https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/ Https://bitwarden.com/help/licensing-on-premise/ Https://bitwarden.com/blog/new-deployment-option-for-self-hosting-bitwarden/ Https://standardnotes.com/help/self-hosting/getting-started Https://syncthing.net/ Https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-servers/ Https://freefilesync.org/ Https://element.io/solutions/self-hosted-or-... Source: 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?

  Honestly? I use https://beets.io/ to organise all my FLAC on my NAS. I expose the /Music directory over NFC. I use https://kodi.tv/ to stream music to my amp. I manually pick the album I want to listen to. Kodi also has a fairly reasonable web UI. Keep it simple. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• You Will Own Nothing

  Do yourself a favor, get a shitty PC or raspberry pi, plug it into your TV, and install Kodi on it. Source: 11 months ago

• Question on Virtual PCs

  Kodi sounds like what you're describing. You connect it to a tv and it can play media from your network, or use add-ons for internet streaming. I'm not sure if it includes the most popular streaming services, but I suppose you could use a browser for those. Source: 11 months ago

FLAC mentions (6)

• Best iPod for music in 2023 with large capacity.

  The Xiph.org foundation maintains FLAC and they have a list of tools that might be helpful. Source: 12 months ago

• lossless music on the 7th gen

  Lastly, ALAC hasn't been updated by apple since 2016. FLAC is actively maintained by xiph.org and saw its last update this past October. Source: over 1 year ago

• [Audio] The MQA Controversy: How an inferior format tried to take over the high-end audio market and caused major backlash

  Excessive licensing costs weren’t the only concern surrounding MQA though. MQA is touted as being DRM free, with audio streams able to be stored in the very popular, open source FLAC format. Only the lower resolution 16-bit audio is truly DRM free however. MQA’s authentication watermarking must be present in the file, and properly validated at playback, otherwise MQA decoders will refuse to unfold the audio to... Source: over 1 year ago

• What audio format do you put on your iPods?

  FLAC continues to be actively maintained and updated. Which, actually thanks for asking your question because in checking sources I noticed FLAC was just updated not two weeks ago. I thik the last time I updated my encoder libraries was after MP3 lost patent protection and dropped licensing a few years ago, so this is fortuitous timing! Anyways, FLAC continues to be meaningfully updated (homepage @ xiph and the... Source: over 1 year ago

• ELI5: How does audio compression (mp3, etc) make sound files so much smaller?

  There are lossless audio compression standards such as FLAC. Source: over 2 years ago