I'm a "keen" audiophile too and have owned lots of good equipment over the years. I started ripping some of my CDs to iTunes about 6 yrs ago when I got my first iPod. I've always used Apple Lossless even on my iPods--I don't try to get my whole music collection on the thing, just what I fancy at the time, which can and does change. I've got about 200 GB of music on my iMac now (actually on a Lacie external drive), all ripped to Apple Lossless, and only once did I have a track that popped like a scratched LP when I played it back. In fact, I actually forgot and thought I was listening to an old LP till I did a double take and realized I was in my car listening to my iPod through my fancy car stereo! I reripped that disk and the pop went away. I guess if I was starting from scratch today I'd try dbpoweramp as recommended, to see if it's really as easy as using iTunes on my iMac, my iPods, and my Squeezeboxes. If it really is as painless and easy to use as iTunes then I'd go with it. But if it takes 20 mins per disc (Apple Lossless takes about 5 mins per disk) or requires tons of initial setup etc. I'd use iTunes and not worry about that one track out of thousands that may contain an audible error. Once you find that track, just rerip the disk. All of my music comes from my own CDs anyway so it's no big deal to go browse my shelves (yes I still do that too) and rerip it. I also find the tagging and cover art works perfectly with iTunes. I purchased the Mac program Cover Sutra to find any missing artwork in my iTunes library and that has filled in the 3% of albums (compilations and the like) that iTunes couldn't obtain.
ps Phil Leigh--I have Let It Be Naked too and had no problems ripping it with iTunes! -- sc53 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sc53's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8690 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49492 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
