Fifer Wrote: > For me, in addition to the obvious SB2 bandwidth advantage, that FLAC is > open source, free, almost universally supported, non DRM and does > everything (aside of DRM I think) that lossless WMA can makes FLAC > superior. Does WMA gave any advantages over FLAC?
WMA comes preinstalled on most users computers and is much easier for the average Joe to rip their music to. Open up Windows Media Player, go to "tools" then "options" go the "rip" tab and change the dropdown. OK your way out of the settings and then hit "rip" and away it goes with all the tags encoded properly and with the album cover also included. It took me a week of messing around trying rip to FLAC. I had just about given up on it until I found this forum and dug up some recommendations and advice for software and instructions on how to use it. I have to use two different pieces of software to rip the CD and then convert the WAV to FLAC. Neither piece of software is very intuitive and if you dont find someplace like this forum you will never hear of the software and if you do find the software it is next to impossible to get it working correctly without somebody else telling you how. Then I have to go track down the album cover off allmusic.com and copy it manually to the correct folder. Oh yeah, I also have to make sure I hit F4 and then F3 before I rip the music and have the right command line string set up in the options or I might have gaps between tracks that are supposed to flow together or my album will show up as "unknown" in the slimserver. Huge Advantage = ease of use Now that I have it figured out I will continue to use FLAC since it is natively supported by Squeezbox2 and will use less bandwidth over a wireless network but this is more of a limitation of the Squeezebox2 than of WMA lossless. I don't have an SB2 yet but I have put in my request for Christmas and have started ripping my CD's so I am ready when the time comes. :-) -- dae3dae3 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
