Alannaː The First Adventure (Book 1, Song of the Lioness Quartet) – Tamora Pierce Free Audiobook

Written by Tamora Pierce
Read by Trini Alvarado
Format: FLAC
Unabridged

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Alanna of Trebond is no ordinary girl: her dream is to become a knight. So she disguises herself as a boy and begins training at the palace of King Roald. Alanna quickly finds out that the road to knighthood is not an easy one, but her skills and stubbornness help her become friends with Prince Jonathan and his followers. At the same time, Alanna makes an enemy of the prince’s uncle, the overly charming Duke Roger.

Here begins Alanna’s first adventure, one that will lead not only to fulfillment of her dreams but to a magical destiny that will make her a legend.

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For some people the difference in filesize is usually far outweighed by FLAC’s advantages: open patent free codec, portable open source (BSD) reference implementation, documented API, multi-platform support, hardware support, multi-channel support, etc. Improving FLAC to get a little more compression is not worth making it more complex and more compute-intensive to decode, and hence, less likely to be supported in hardware.

– Audible has this audiobook available at 64kbps, 22.5kHz, isn’t it overkill to convert the file to a FLAC?
My FLAC rips are from CDs, not MP3 CDs, genuine uncompressed audio, FLAC allows me to keep the lossless audio quality of a CD without the larger file sizes of a WAV file or ISO. For the record, I do not use audible or MP3 CDs as a source for audiobooks. All of my audiobooks are from CD sources.

– Your FLAC audiobooks are too large! Why would you upload an audiobook in this format?
I know that for some folks, it’s an inconvenience due to bandwidth limitations and data caps, however there are already other audiobooks available in a smaller file size. Unless explicitly stated otherwise,my audibook uploads are for those that miss the audio quality of books on CD with the convenience of an Audible download.

– Your files have colons in their file name, how? Why? What OS are you on?
I’m running Windows 10, I’m using an ASCII character that looks like a colon. I do this because I think it looks nice and organized, if you don’t like it, you can change the file name after you’ve downloaded it.

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Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 58.7 MiB
Duration : 28 min 12 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 291 kb/s
Album : Alanna: The First Adventure
Part/Total : 1
Track name : Chapter 1ː Twins
Track name/Position : 1
Track name/Total : 3
Performer : Tamora Pierce

Audio
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 28 min 12 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 291 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 58.6 MiB (100%)
Writing library : libFLAC 1.3.1 (UTC 2014-11-25)