First of all there is a mistake above. Apple Lossless will quite happily convert hi-res files such as 24/96, IF you use the encoder supplied with iTunes.
However, the reverse engineered routines that are supplied with programs such as dBpoweramp will not. This means such files need to be in wave format, added to the iTunes library, and then converted, which is a royal pain. I have all my stuff in Apple Lossless (for the iPod) and in FLAC for the Slim stuff. I keep them on separate drives, and so have (by serendipity I must admit) created myself a backup strategy. I rip to ALAC first, add to the iTunes library, and then convert with dBpoweramp in batches to FLAC in my squeeze library. There will not be any DRM in an ALAC file ripped or converted by dBpoweramp, now or in the future. -- bigfool1956 David Ayers Klaatu barada nikto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigfool1956's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51311 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
