Nostromo;138512 Wrote: > :lol: > > ALAC supports gapless playback? Are you sure? EDIT: I quickly checked, > and it does seem to support gapless playback. But I don't think that > plain vanilla AAC supports gapless. And neither AAC or ALAC support FWD > and REV. > > As for AIFF, I really don't see the point in using it. If its anything > like WAV, there's no difference, soundwise, with ALAC or FLAC, AIFF > tracks take a lot more of space and its a poor choice for tagging > purposes. > > On ReplayGain > > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RGFoobar > > But its not recommended for music with high dynamic range, like > classical.
No, I checked, too, and you're quite right, and I was quite wrong, about AAC and ALAC. Sorry! (That shows how much I use them!) I disagree about AIFF, though. In fact, I'd put it the other way round. I don't see the point in NOT using aiff (or .wav). They are, unarguably, the gold standard sonically, which one cannot say of any of the compressed formats, about the relative merits of which or differences between which there always seems to be some sort of barney going on somewhere. There's lots else in favour of not using compression - flexibility, rapidity of ripping, ability to upsample/edit digitised vinyl, simplicity of processing, not to mention all the things you can do with them on Squeezebox - that make make ripping to anything else seem to me like spoiling the ship for a ha'p'eth of tar. The only argument I can see in its favour is disc space, but this is now so incredibly cheap that it seems to me like false economy to stint on it and risk (perhaps) compromising the output of, for instance, a five figure (or more) audio setup. Concerning tagging - now, you definitely lose me. I've never myself found any shortcomings in or limitations to the labelling that I need of Aiff files. This may well be because - being a benighted iTunes user! - I don't know anything at all about it, and don't really know what is possible. That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Lead me, therefore, to tagging Nirvana, O Nostromo, for I comprehend it not. -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27729 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
