I was actually interested in peoples experiences of AB blind testing of
PC SB3 vs reasonably serious CD players, rather than kicking off a
discussion over my choice of format.
As it happens, the time difference between creating WAV and FLAC files
is quite significant in my experience.
Ok -- I'm just curious how you plan to handle the tagging issue. Will you just always use browse music folder? I've never heard the details of how someone would keep their collection in WAV, so I'm curious to know how it will work without having any metadata tags to use for navigation.
On 2/28/06,
hifisteve wrote:
As it happens, the time difference between creating WAV and FLAC files
is quite significant in my experience. Multiplied by 2000 CD, that's a
good chunk of my time I'd prefer not to spend sat at my PC when the
extra storage cost so little.
You may be able to get the
Funny you should say that because I had the same thought.
All the WAV files I ripped using iTunes are fully accessible via my SB
using the normal browse and search functions and as far as I can see
they carry all the usual track info.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable but I'm presuming that
Steve,
I recommend you rip to flac with EAC and flac.exe. You can always go
back to wav format, but once you're in wav you can't go forward to flac
as you've lost the tags. I think it's best to keep the metadata with
the audio file, as opposed to relying on any separate database.
Many of us
Here's a new version that supports MP3 (same caveats as before, be
prepared to get into the code)
I've taken a slightly different approach for MP3 (it works the same as
it used to with FLAC).
I found a worryingly small difference between MP3 and WAV when I tested
(I thought I had better ears!)
Hi Folks.
Well I've just joined the exciting world of SB3 after a friend lent me
a spare one which he'd bought for his bedroom. As I told him through
gritted teeth The only way you're getting this back is by prising it
from my cold dead hand
Anyway, I'd read all that people have said about
I'm not sure I follow your logic.You can't tell the difference between FLAC and WAV (which to date nobody has been able to do using blind testing), so you settle on WAV as your format of choice?I think the biggest hassle you're going to have with WAV is the lack of tagging. Disk space is cheap, so
hifisteve Wrote:
Hi Folks.
Well I've just joined the exciting world of SB3 after a friend lent me
a spare one which he'd bought for his bedroom. As I told him through
gritted teeth The only way you're getting this back is by prising it
from my cold dead hand
Anyway, I'd read all
