> If you want better quality you'll need to rip a CD, or find a > higher quality download.
Apple iTunes typically gets notes for some of the best sound quality online - and yet it's 128 kbps AAC. Which comes to show audiophile ears don't need to look for downloads yet as a rule. :-( Conversion to another format is inevitable when one has a downloaded library because (a) SB will not play DRM AAC content from iTunes (b) Even when it does, the DRM stuff has hickups over time. I have had to contact support to regrant me a license for stuff I had bought, and I can't see that operation being successful 10 years down the line! Someone else mentioned transcoding... I do the route via CD burn because of that, the results are better than direct (and with protected content even more questionable) transcoding routes. On another note, I see Winamp is compressing CDs at about ~650kbps as a FLAC... I was expecting 700-800, is it possible that the Winamp FLAC codec actually introduces some lossy compression (it can be configured to, which given the name of the format does not seem to make a lot of sense!). -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32369 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
