FLAC is lossless, so using it will not compromise the quality. There is a compression level option when encoding to FLAC, this is often wrongly called "quality" in ripping apps. This does not affect the quality of the resulting files, just the higher the number the more FLAC will try and produce smaller files. Although there isn't a great deal of size difference between the difference levels, but using -8 will take a lot longer to encode than using -1 for example.
Have a look at CDEx, it is fairly simple to use and although isn't as paranoid as EAC can be about ripping damaged CDs, is a good ripper. FLAC also has destinct advantages over uncompressed WAV. WAV files don't normally have meta data (also known as tags) so can be hard to catalogue in SlimServer. FLAC files don't have this problem. Also streaming to SqueezeBoxes over wireless is generally more relaible with FLAC. Two reasons for this, they use roughly half the bandwidth so you get less transmition problems and the SBs can buffer twice the music, also making drop outs less likely. Hope this helps :) -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42123 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
