mgh;277568 Wrote: > I have had my SB for a year or so now, and very much enjoy it. I think > it is BS that I purchase music and can not play it, but OK that's what > I have to deal with.
Complain to Apple. Songs you buy from iTMS won't play on your car stereo either without wasting space (ie, converting a 128kbps lossy file to a 1440kbps lossy file... no more getting 10 albums on a CD...) Nor can you play them on any portable music player other than an iPod. Use Amazon. Cheaper and no DRM. > > I am taking my purchased itunes, burning to CD and ripping again to > play on my SB. I figured I would want to rip in some lossless format, > so as not to further compress the files. I take a 2,800KB file, burn > and rip, either with EAC or itunes losssless, and end up with a > 16,000KB file. I have plenty of HDD space, but wondering what is going > on. > > Thanks for all help. That is correct: you take a file that is 128kbps, and expand it to one that is 1440kbps, or more than ten times the size to burn it to a CD. When you rip it and recompress as FLAC or other compressed lossless format it will typically drop down to around 800-900kbps.. So roughly 7-8 times the size of the original lossy format. That looks like exactly what you are seeing. Ideally, you would want to just remove the encryption in the ITMS file and convert it to plain m4a... but circumventing Apple's DRM is illegal in the US. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44501 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
