When storing sound files, there is always a compromise to make between file size, and sound quality. With the mp3 codec, for instance, you can compress a lot, but with a more or less noticeable degradation of the sound quality.

If the sound quality is a very important factor, you may as well keep the sound uncompressed, in a wav or aiff file, for instance.

In between these two extremes, we can find the lossless codecs, such as FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). Lossless means that the sound is compressed without any loss of quality.

Although TwistedWave fully supports the FLAC format, it is not yet the case with a lot of software, and converting all your files to FLAC may mean that you would have to convert them back to a more readable format if you wanted to play, or edit them.

This is where TwistedFLAC comes in handy. TwistedFLAC will show FLAC files as if they were WAV files. Any application can read these WAV files while TwistedFLAC transparently decodes the FLAC file in the background. If the WAV file was modified by another application, TwistedFLAC will automatically convert it back to FLAC, and update the original file.

TwistedFLAC also makes it a very easy way to convert many WAV to FLAC. Simply drag and drop a WAV file, or a folder full of them to the TwistedFLAC folder, and they will be converted automatically.

And the best of all this is that TwistedFLAC is available now here, and is completely free!

Enjoy!