JayDub Wrote: > WMA comes out slightly smaller on my tests... which isn't that much of a > big deal, but 'a' factor. > > Looks like you have already made up your mind and I am not really trying to change it but as one who has been going through this excercise recently I thought I might add my comments.
WMA does come out slightly smaller. EAC is a better ripper than WMC. I have discovered that around 3% of my commercial CD's have pocked up serious errors over the past 15 years mostly through "Bronzing" and EAC has detected these and recovered what it can enabling me to do repairs. WMC just carried on ripping errors in some cases without warning and in others it failed. Microsoft are committed to improve "Music Security" and just because you can do what you like with some WMA format files at the moment doesn't mean that you will be able to do this in the future. Microsoft already have agreements with some software writers about copying and there is at least one transcoder package available which will not attempt to transcode out of any WMA format. There is at least one Flac/Ogg codec package available which works with WMC and other packages such as WinAmp. I am using a Squeezebox 3 therefore onboard decoding of Flac reduces the load a little on my Server. My choice was Flac. -- MrStan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrStan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1771 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23028 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
