azinck3 Wrote: > Why do you suggest this? You can easily reconstruct a wav at any point > from a lossless file--it seems to me that if you're going to keep an > uncompressed copy then you may as well not use FLAC at all. I mean, > that you want to do this for your own reasons I, of course, have no > problem with. But I'm a little confused as to why this ought to be a > general recommendation. Oh, I wasn't suggesting saving an uncompressed version *and* a FLAC-encoded file -- that'd be a silly duplication. I merely contend that one should keep *some* lossless (whether uncompressed or losslessly-compressed) version of the music as the master. And if one is doing that, if there's plenty of disk space available, it might just be less hassle not to bother with compression at the start -- since Microsoft and Apple compressed formats are proprietary and thus not something I'd want to use as the foundation of my music collection, and FLAC requires installing some additional software the original poster might find daunting and results in a format which might not be readily-usable by his default music-playing program.
The above assumption of daunting-ness may of course be unwarranted. But what I envision for someone new to this music-flinging biz is the desire to rip stuff with minimal hassle and with good ease of transcoding as necessary. One can, if one wishes, install iTunes on either Mac or PC, rip to AIFF masters, and create lossily-compressed copies for an iPod without leaving the one program. If disk space starts to run out, *then* the user can investigate lossless compression, and a global FLAC conversion can convert all the music (albeit with a little bother to keep one's music-player program informed) to get back space. My assumption that using (if on a Mac) or installing (if on a PC) iTunes is less scary and bothersome than installing and figuring out either the standalone FLAC compressor or another music-playing front-end may of course be challenged, but that's what I was basing my recommendation on. Of course, we're still in the dark about GreenMan's actual environment and software-setup comfort zone, so I'm doing a lot of theorizing. -- 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
