GreenMan Wrote: > Ok, this makes sense. However, I've noticed that nothing I've ripped to > lossless actually ever says 1411kbps CBR. It's usually 600 to 800 or > so. So we need to know what is meant by "ripping to lossles". What software are you using, and to what format? There are lossless compressions which may be applied which would result in about a 600-800 kbps aggregate: the popular ones which come to mind are FLAC, Apple Lossless, and Windows Media Lossless.
Of those three, FLAC is probably the best choice for use with Slim setups, because it's both a publicly-well-defined format and it's decoded natively by Squeezeboxen. But if you're using, say, Microsoft's or Apple's thrown-in-with-the-OS software, the lossless compression format offered you won't be FLAC, it'll be that vendor's own proprietary lossless encoding. In such a situation, even though the available lossless compression gives you "free" space savings -- no bits are harmed, they come back out the other end -- for the greatest compatibility with other software, I'd suggest considering throwing away the space (if you can spare it) on keeping your master versions of tracks losslessly ripped and not compressed at all. The commonly-available uncompressed lossless formats are AIFF and WAV, which have essentially the same internal music data but AIFF has support for descriptive tags within the file and I believe WAV still doesn't. So I use AIFF. Even if you're stuck on Windows, you should be able to rip to AIFF if you install the Windows version of iTunes. -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
