1. Maybe a stupid question, but is there a audioplayer app for android phones which can play lossless audio files?

    Thanks
  2. Yes there is.
    it's called "VLC for android", and you can find it in the google play store.
    Just like the pc-version of the VLC audio player, it plays all kinds of lossless audio-formats.
  3. THANKS
  4. Maybe a strange question, but a smartphone offers no extra quality between a lossless and 320MP3. So why would you want to play lossless on your smartphone? MP3 is much smaller.
  5. Originally posted by cjkos:Maybe a strange question, but a smartphone offers no extra quality between a lossless and 320MP3. So why would you want to play lossless on your smartphone? MP3 is much smaller.
    So lossless audio on a smartphone has the same quality as 320 MP3?

    I did not know this.
  6. Many phone speaker/earphones output are probably not able to reproduce the extra frequencies that a FLAC file has (and a MP3 doesn't), I think that is ckjos' point.

    But they don't have the same quality regardless if the gizmo is able to reproduce it or not.
  7. Some phones have good DACs, with ear phones FLAC should sound pretty similar to a pc. PC DACs are perhaps even a bit noisier, if you use the analogue outputs of course.
  8. Some interesting info. Thanks.

    I have Sony Z3 Compact.
  9. My Sony z2 plays flac with the default music player, no need to install a new one
  10. One thing is playing it (matter of codecs) and other thing is taking advantage of FLAC's extra size. Your phone might reproduce the FLACs but they might sound just as good (or as bad) as if you were playing MP3s simply because the Digital > Analog converter of the outoput isn't able to reproduce all the freqs that a FLAC file has.
  11. Late to the thread but Windows Phones have exemplary playback of FLAC. I have a 64GB microSD full of FLACs. Just don't use earbuds, they're rubbish.