[Music] Local FLAC Playback

[Deeb]

A member of spotify team said to separate the FLAC idea post, into FLAC local playback and FLAC streaming. Someone else can create a FLAC streaming post, as I'm only after local playback. The original post with the 2 ideas in one post is here.

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Flac-on-Spotify-at-least-playback-of-your-own-flac/idi...

 
Vote for this post if you want LOCAL PLAYBACK OF FLAC FILES ONLY.

WHY WE NEED SPOTIFY TO PLAY OUR FLAC COLLECTION
Spotify already plays ALAC, all be it with stability problems, but what we really need is local FLAC playback because FLAC is the defacto standard for lossless audio encoding. 7digital has recently started selling FLAC yet spotify can't play them. Why not???

http://www.7digital.com/find-music/7digital-recommends/flac

The most commercially successful band on the planet (The Beatles), have released official remastered versions of all albums in 24bitFLAC format on a usb device.

http://www.everythingusb.com/the-beatles-stereo-usb-limited-edition-17961.html

Numerous bands have sold albums in FLAC format through their websites. FLAC is the defacto standard for lossless encoding, so please start supporting local playback of FLAC.

Another idea that is important to me is fixing the appalling "set the same volume level for all tracks", which doesn't take into account the subtle volume transients of an album that audio engineers spend hours working on. The following volume normalization method retains the intended volume differences as part of the album.

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/VOLUME-NORMALIZATION-IN-SPOTIFY-DAMAGES-INTEGRITY-OF-T...

[modusmongo]

I did not read all 13 pages, so if someone already said it, I will second the notion.

How is FLAC "relatively unknown" but ALAC is supported?

Adding FLAC support for people who have audiophile quality libraries on their computers is a MUST for premium users. This is a SIMPLE programming addition, people.

This is not about Lossles vs MP3 at all, it is about having an "all-in-one solution". I currently have to switch back and forth between Foobar2000 and Spotify and this is a pain in the butt.

Please do the right thing. Your argument that FLAC is relatively unknown is specious, and the fact that you have already implemented ALAC gives it the lie...

[boe323]

We need flac playback please ....50% of my local files are flac ....i just aquired premium for 2 years ....im so dissapointed

[snoefjol]

Please add local flac playback asap. 90% of my local audio files are flac.

Marcel

[lewiselement]

Most of my collection is also FLAC format, please add support for playback!

[Jnx]

Please implement FLAC support! It would really be something that will bring me back to using just spotify.

[stevenme]

2014 and still no support for local flac files..... this really saddens me. this is nearly the ONLY reason I don't use spotify as my daily player...

[edised]

Another vote for adding Flac or Wav/Aiff playback for local files!

[waffle_ss]

Anyone who rips their CD collection today is going to do so with a lossless audio format such as FLAC.  Storage is just too cheap not to.

It would be nice if we could therefore listen to ripped music from our collection that is not on Spotify within the same player.

[BroX]

Without local flac playback I will NEVER pay for this otherwise rather nice streaming service.

[dheerajsp]

Please add FLAC. I would use the Spotify play MUCH more if it could do that. 🙂