FLAC on Android, Is it worth the trouble to listen to FLAC on a android phone? Options

[bsiffredi]

Hello, everyone

I'm new here, so I'd like to first congratulate everyone that participates in these discussions, because I think it's important stuff.

So, here's the topic:

I have bought my first smartphone recently, it's a Samsung Galaxy Ace running Android 2.3.4 (I guess they call it Gingerbread). I want to use it as a music player, so I'm trying out different players available, like WinAmp and PowerAmp. Until now, I was able to play FLAC files only using PowerAmp.

My question is:

Is Android capable of playing FLAC with real sound accuracy and quality, or is the accuracy and quality in some way reduced through the process of playing it? Have there been any tests to assert this?

[critofur]

A lot of people wonder: "is it worth the trouble" or say: "I wouldn't bother using lossless on my portable devices"...

Well, until I hear about some new widely adopted standard to replace flac (still lossless, perhaps better compression?) by default all my music is going to be flac (typically ripped from CD using EAC on my PC) and I don't really want to bother with converting to MP3 and storing those files too.

With 8 and 16 GB MicroSD cards under $10 / $20 respectively, I can store as many flac songs as I want on my portable phone/Android tablet, whatever...

My biggest gripe is that Android doesn't seem to have an easy way to "file type association" for file types it doesn't already "know"?

I hope it won't be much longer before foobar2000 gets ported to Android andless looks cool, I'll try that.

...For the supported phones, there's the Voodoo Control app that can make things better.

Oh cool! Thanks for that info.

This post has been edited by critofur: Jan 22 2012, 20:40