Hello all,
I was wondering if any FLAC players have been developed for the N73.. I know what you're thinking, FLAC is HUGE and N73 memory cards are small .. I know I know, but still, does anyone know of a FLAC player developed for N73? That would be great!


Thanks,
MaDman

Is there such a player or am I wasting my time?


so I guess this is a ::BUMP::

It would be a waste of time developing flac support for virtually any mobile, purely down to sound quality.

You'd be kidding yourself if you think the output stages of any of the Nokias, SE, Samsungs (or even the iPhone) are good enough to justify use of uncompressed audio.

A better option if you want reasonable sound would be to use the OggPlay application, I'll always maintain that Ogg Vorbis is ahead of both MP3 and AAC on audio quality.

It would be a waste of time developing flac support for virtually any mobile, purely down to sound quality.

You'd be kidding yourself if you think the output stages of any of the Nokias, SE, Samsungs (or even the iPhone) are good enough to justify use of uncompressed audio.


I feel farily unintelligent right about now. I always assumed players played well. But I guess they don't. Oh well, just out of curiousty how does the iPod compare to my N73 ? :D


A better option if you want reasonable sound would be to use the OggPlay application, I'll always maintain that Ogg Vorbis is ahead of both MP3 and AAC on audio quality.

Well I got all my music from my cousin. Unfortunately he is an mp3 whore so I am stuck where I am.


Thanks!

Like what clonmult said, I think FLAC on a mobile phone is kinda pointless. Even if you can play FLAC on the N73 I bet you can't tell the difference between a LAME encoded 192k and FLAC. Another factor is the earphones, the standard ones sucks and not worth listening to anything encoded higher that 128k.

Like what clonmult said, I think FLAC on a mobile phone is kinda pointless. Even if you can play FLAC on the N73 I bet you can't tell the difference between a LAME encoded 192k and FLAC. Another factor is the earphones, the standard ones sucks and not worth listening to anything encoded higher that 128k.

I have shure E4C's.. So headphones aren't a problem.. How good is the N73 in comparison to an iPod ?

Not sure as I cant connect a some normal earphones (Super.fi 5 Pro) to try out the N73 as I dont have the ME lead or an adaptor. Since the iPod is a dedicated music player, its obvious that the iPod will gonna sound a lot better!

Not sure as I cant connect a some normal earphones (Super.fi 5 Pro) to try out the N73 as I dont have the ME lead or an adaptor. Since the iPod is a dedicated music player, its obvious that the iPod will gonna sound a lot better!

Not necessarily. I read some blind test reviews where the n91 beat other ipods..

Somehow I doubt it IMO.

As others have said, its difficult to compare the N73 to an iPod on quality due to different headphone adapters.

However, I'd say that the N73 player is definitely reasonable, and at least has a custom EQ facility that is stupidly lacking on the iPod. I recently purchased a 30gig video iPod, and am totally hacked off that it doesn't have any custom EQ function. The bass boost EQ pushes the bass up too far.