FWIW - I find some of the Flac comment just a bit obsessive. You can rip using itunes to apple lossless you will find * albums condensed in size to about 50%-60% * playable on ipod though at around 350 meg per album you'll need to be choosey * easy enough to do a second rip to something else if you want - like FLAC you can get back from AAC to WAV without compromise precisely because it is lossless similarly AAC to mp3 is an option * The itunes rip is pretty good and pretty fast and easy EAC options can be pretty time consuming * USUALLY the apple rip will be as good as EAC but EAC wins out when the going gets tough - in my experience itunes either sweeps though effortlessly at around 10X speed or takes forever. The ones that take forever also end up sounding worse. One option might be to use itunes unless it starts struggling then your "problem" discs get the full EAC treatment * other objections to Apple Losless are either political "don't support this non open commercially driven standard" or to do with the fact that SB2/3 natively decodes FLAC as opposed to having AAC transcoded on the server. The latter point is true but I've never noticed any actual difference in reality the former point is up to you...
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