I ripped everything to 320kbps CBR mp3 when I got my first box, a Netgear MP101 (you had a choice of wav, wma or mp3!), and now I've got the Squeezebox I think it's time to redo my favourite CDs as lossless. I'm not going to bother to redo things like Hits of 93 Vol. 4 - it's not a classic, you'll be surprised to learn.
So I've looked into the various options, and whilst I know flac is natively supported on the Squeezebox and ALAC isn't, I still think ALAC is the best choice. 1 I use iPod in the car almost exclusively, so battery life not a problem 2 I've never rewound or fast-forwarded anything on either my Netgear or my SB3, so the transcoding doesn't bother me! 3 In my opinion, popping a CD into iTunes and letting it rip it to ALAC involves less work than the various flac stages required 4 I can't be bothered with maintaining two libraries or transcoding flac>somthing else for iPod 5 I've tried to hear differences between flac ripped on EAC and a CD ripped lossless in iTunes, and (on my system at least) I can't. That's the clincher for me! Anyway, that's my £0.02 worth! -- moley6knipe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38573
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