Another stupid question:
I'm currently doing a back-up of all my music. As you already have
guessed I'm using FLAC compression. However, I plan to buy an iPod in
the near future and it got me thinking: wouldn't it be more convinient
if I ripped my music to Apple Loseless instead of FLAC? That
Ali-M Wrote:
Another stupid question:
I'm currently doing a back-up of all my music. As you already have
guessed I'm using FLAC compression. However, I plan to buy an iPod in
the near future and it got me thinking: wouldn't it be more convinient
if I ripped my music to Apple Loseless
tomsi42 Wrote:
If I remember correctly, ALAC (Apple) compressed a little better that
FLAC.
Have you thought about players from other producers (iRiver, iAudio,
etc) ? They have models that support FLAC.
Finally, do you need lossless on your player ? They eat up diskspace
very quickly.
Ali-M Wrote:
And the sound quality is the same right? I mean, like ezkcdude said;
loseless is loseless. Right?
Right!
Ali-M Wrote:
I'm very picky when it comes to sound reproduction, and frankly, I
think my SHURE in-ear-phones deserves better than MP3's, no offence. I
don't carry all
tomsi42 Wrote:
Right!
In that case you need lossless. You should consider a 60GB model
though. You can't get enough disk space on those players...
Do you know if there's a hack to enable FLAC's on iPod?
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Ali-M
You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound
quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0,
but anything 2 or less).
The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give
up a little bit in SQ, but you gain a LOT in storage
nelamvr6 Wrote:
You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound
quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0,
but anything 2 or less).
The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give
up a little bit in SQ, but you
If you're talking about FLAC, there's really no way to screw it up. It
will always be lossless, no matter what quality you choose.
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ezkcdude
SB3-Derek Shek TDA1543/CS8412 NOS DAC-MIT Terminator 2
interconnects-Endler Audio 24-step Attenuators (RCA-direct)-Parasound
Halo A23 125W/ch
optimal is a bit subjective - (optimal for speed / size / quality ?)
In terms of tutorials, there is a good one on setting up EAC to rip to
FLAC 'in the wiki' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACInstall).
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Siduhe
On the External Compression Tab there is a selection for Bit rate and
the default is 192kBit/s. Should I select the highest possible or leave
as it for Flac encoding.
Thanks
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rocky2889
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I selected 320, but I believe it's ignored for FLAC.
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Skunk
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Skunk Wrote:
I selected 320, but I believe it's ignored for FLAC.
That is correct.
If you are obsessed about best possible quality, it is important that
the drive offset is set correctly and you rip in safe mode. Many people
use the AccurateRIP plugin as an extra precaution.
Of course, if
Now, you guys are getting into ripping versus encoding. Ripping to WAV
is something you have to do before do FLAC encoding. Errors can occur
during the ripping process, but that is a different issue. Assuming the
WAV file is a bit-for-bit copy, there is no way to produce lower
quality FLAC files.
ezkcdude Wrote:
Now, you guys are getting into ripping versus encoding. Ripping to WAV
is something you have to do before do FLAC encoding. Errors can occur
during the ripping process, but that is a different issue. Assuming the
WAV file is a bit-for-bit copy, there is no way to produce
ezkcdude Wrote:
Now, you guys are getting into ripping versus encoding.
That's right. I brought it up as you need a correct rip before
encoding...
ezkcdude Wrote:
FLAC is lossless. You can't change the quality of a FLAC-encoded file.
You can *slightly* change the size of a FLAC file, but
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