I use goldwave to create MP3 copies of my master lossless wma collection for playback on portable devices.
Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:44 AM Subject: Re: The Best Ripping format again > What does he use to convert from that format to anything else he might > want for use on a portable player? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin Lloyd > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:43 AM > Subject: Re: The Best Ripping format again > > > Hi Gordon. > > In my opinion, you won't go wrong with WMA lossless. You're guaranteed > no > loss of quality at the smallest file size with full support for id3 tags. > WMA is probably the most well supported format and as it's proprietary to > Microsoft, you won't be left with a pup in a few years time as you may be > with other niche formats. > > Don't know if this is supported by the i-tunes interface as I use windows > media player library and a program called audigen to manage my music > collection. I bought audigen some years ago when media player wasn't as > accessible and powerful as it is today but both are great programs for > organising music, building playlists, editing tags and much more. > > I currently have my music collection connected to a Roksan amp and Tannoy > speakers so can vouch for the quality of the resulting ripped music. > > Kevin > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "G. McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC-Audio" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:34 AM > Subject: The Best Ripping format again > > > > Hi > > Apologies for returning to this perennial problem. > > Before I realised it a while ago I ripped my entire collection of music > in > > Itunes to the wav format in order to preserve best quality. I since > > discovered I had no tags except those preserved in the Itunes library. > In > > Itunes the files are tagged but taking them outside of this, they lose > > them. I Can however maintain the tags if I convert the files withing > > Itunes to Apple lossless or mp3. > > Having messed up my library by trying to clean it up I now find that > there > > are about 100 albums missing. I'm now considering re-ripping everything > > into a lossless tagged format. I like the Itunes interface but does > this > > limit me to Apple lossless? Also I have converted some of my wav files > to > > Apple lossless and I thought I noticed some deterioration - is this > > possible? > > Is there something better? How about Windows Media files lossless or > flec? > > I know lossless should mean lossless but does it. I really want to rip > at > > the best then convert to different formats to my heart's content while > > maintaining the tag, and somewhere along the way still use Itunes > > interface. > > Any suggestions from that great body of experience out there? > > One final point are there ways of ripping more than one CD at a time? > > Thanks in advance. > > Gordon McFarlane > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.29/1124 - Release Date: > 11/11/2007 10:12 AM > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
