sc53;317065 Wrote: > 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.
There are two separate processes here - ripping and encoding. Apple Lossless doesn't "rip", iTunes does. iTunes then encodes the resulting rip into Apple Lossless or MP3. Programs other than iTunes (dBpowerAMP for example) can also encode into ALAC. The speed of ripping doesn't influence the speed of encoding. In terms of encoding speed, there aren't huge advantages in any one format. For example, when FLAC was slower than ALAC it was changed and now is at least as fast. Personally, I don't really care how long ripping takes as long as it's as correct as possible. You can leave your computer and go do other things. Often those "protected" CDs take ~24 hours to rip... > ps Phil Leigh--I have Let It Be Naked too and had no problems ripping it > with iTunes! These protected CDs usually contain purposeful errors every 2-5 seconds. This shows that iTunes will happily rip such errors and not tell you. A secure ripper will have a problem with this because it will detect the errors and attempt to correct them, that's the point of this protection mechanism - to frustrate the user and discourage ripping. These errors are not necessarily audible, but they are there. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 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
