buelligan;227208 Wrote: > I have been ripping my CD collection in full-rez via EAC for playback > through my SB3. I found out after ripping about 500 songs from my CD > collection that .wav doesn't support all the various metadata tags. So > I am missing a lot of functionality that everyone else enjoys. Being an > audiophile, even the tiniest sonic details take precedence over the > convenience of sorting by genre, etc. capabilities that the other > formats (FLAC, mp3, AAC, etc.) support, but I have been an odd > combination of lazy and skeptical about compressing even to FLAC. > > Yes, yes, I know that FLAC decompresses to exactly the same bit > sequence, but I'm enough of a graybeard to have experienced many things > that shouldn't make a difference but did (i.e. timing jitter in the > S/PDIF digital interface that common sense would indicate would be > perfect), and vice versa. I would be highly upset to notice eventually > that there was some, as yet, unforseen secondary effect gotcha similar > to the S/PDIF jitter issue if I encoded to FLAC, so that's why I haven't > bothered with experimenting with it yet. And if you haven't figured it > out yet, I'm a snake oil swilling (and musically fulfilled) audiophile. > > > However, I think I'm willing to experiment with FLAC encoding so I can > assure myself that there won't be any degradation. If I'm satisfied > that FLAC really works as theory dictates (i.e. completely > indistinguishable from .wav in actual practice), it would be worth > converting if there were an application that could fetch the metadata > for all of the tracks automatically. To be more clear, I am looking > for an application that could look at the track names in my EAC > generated cue sheet, encode the wavs into FLACs and look up the > metadata on the web and appropriately tag each FLAC track. I now have > over 1500 wavs in my hard drive library and tagging each of them > manually is out of the question. > > My brother recently gave me an ipod nano (2GB) and I was also > interested in non-destructively compressing some of my library to AAC > (in a separate folder)for greater capacity. Again, automatic tagging > would be great. > > Sorry for being in windbag mode and thanks in advance for any replies. > > Thanks, > buelligan
If you hear differences between FLAC and WAV on the SB3 (not that I think that there are any), you can always have SlimServer decompress FLAC to WAV on the server side and stream the WAV to the SB3. There is not even room for a theoretical difference there, unless something is terribly wrong. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38403
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