VolkerR;227318 Wrote: > There is a lot of buzz around FLAC format and I have to decide what > format I am going to use: > > My criteria list is the following: > > 1) Sound Quality > 2) Ease of use & Time for ripping > 3) Database for automatic file naming of ripped tracks > 4) Required space > > Any help highly appreciated.
Sound quality is identical in any lossless format. Ripping time isn't affected very much either (because most of the time is the actual rip, not the encoding). Same goes for the database - that has nothing to do with what format you encode to. As for space, all lossless formats are more or less the same - roughly half the space required for WAV. So basically it doesn't matter much in any of those categories. What's probably more relevant is the software that supports it. If you want to use itunes, go with ALAC. If you like open source and don't care about itunes, use FLAC. If you like microsoft, use Windows media lossless. And remember that you can batch-convert all your files from one format to another more or less whenever you want, so it's really not that big of a deal... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38417 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
