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I'm wondering about flac. file support on my Nexus 5 phone. Google states that flac. files are transcoded to 320 kbps mp3. when on an android device, but I'm not certain if they mean when they are being streamed from Google's music server, or actually moved from my computer HDD onto my phone's physical memory. I basically want to know if my flac. file music I am manually adding to my phone are staying in lossless format or if they are being transcoded to mp3.
 
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If you use an app that supports FLAC playback it should not convert them to mp3 it should convert them to analog so you can hear it on your phones. Here are some:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/android-music-players/
The Poweramp & Neutron players sound interesting. You can try them.
Even though the difference in audio quality on your phone may not be that great it saves you the hassle of having to downconvert your lossless files to mp3 to carry them around.
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Good question, I looked quickly but couldn't find the information.

Perhaps it's in your MANUAL?

That aside, FLAC really needs awesome headphones or speakers to benefit from the lossless format.

I think what Google is likely saying is that you can stream or manually add FLAC files but they are converted to MP3 before being played (which just means they are wasting space).

However you look at it they do say "transcoded to 320kbps MP3" so to me that says you are getting MP3 audio.
 
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If you use an app that supports FLAC playback it should not convert them to mp3 it should convert them to analog so you can hear it on your phones. Here are some:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/android-music-players/
The Poweramp & Neutron players sound interesting. You can try them.
Even though the difference in audio quality on your phone may not be that great it saves you the hassle of having to downconvert your lossless files to mp3 to carry them around.
 
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What's confusing to me is WHY would Google even convert the video when it is Royalty-free anyway? Why not just play it?

If it was a processing power problem I could understand, so in that case it only makes sense if they can't DECOMPRESS it in real-time. However, if that was the case than no software could support FLAC.

And I find it very unlikely a modern phone couldn't decode FLAC in real-time.

Weird.
 
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