[SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread citabria327
Hello It seems like my copy of EAC no longer converts cd's to FLAC. They wind up as WAV files. My touch doesnt see them. What burners are best to use for FLAC? Thanks Mike citabria327's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread Julf
citabria327 wrote: > Hello > It seems like my copy of EAC no longer converts cd's to FLAC. They wind > up as WAV files. My touch doesnt see them. What burners are best to use > for FLAC? > Sounds like a settings issue, but if not, just use the reference FLAC encoder to convert the WAVs to FLAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread Percival Sweetwater
Hi Mike, The latest version of EAC is 1.3, from September 2016. I think that by default it already uses an instance of the flac encoder. You can also use an external flac encoder, as I do. Download the latest version of flac from: https://xiph.org/flac/download.html (Flac 1.3.2). I use the Windo

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread citabria327
Julf wrote: > Sounds like a settings issue, but if not, just use the reference FLAC > encoder to convert the WAVs to FLACs. Thanks. so look for 'the reference flac encoder? citabria327's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread citabria327
Percival Sweetwater wrote: > Hi Mike, > > The latest version of EAC is 1.3, from September 2016. I think that > by default it already uses an instance of the flac encoder. You can also > use an external flac encoder, as I do. Download the latest version of > flac from: https://xiph.org/flac/dow

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread JohnB
You might want to look at the following link to see whether you can restore the Flac compression within EAC: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_and_FLAC If you want an easy to use Flac encoder/decoder there is Flac Frontend which gives a simple GUI to the official Flac tools (and i

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread citabria327
citabria327 wrote: > NICE! Thank you! if my music is stored on my I drive, is that what i should use for the encoder as well? thanks citabria327's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39378 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread Percival Sweetwater
citabria327 wrote: > if my music is stored on my I drive, is that what i should use for the > encoder as well? thanks It doesn't really matter. C:\ is usually the drive where the operating system (Windows) is installed. BTW, Just found a brand new version of flac (1.3.3): https://www.videohelp

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread Percival Sweetwater
If you have already ripped CDs as .wav files, I would use Foobar 2000 to convert them to flac, using the same C:\flac\flac.exe as the encoder. Percival Sweetwater's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread citabria327
Percival Sweetwater wrote: > It doesn't really matter. C:\ is usually the drive where the operating > system (Windows) is installed. > > BTW, Just found a brand new version of flac (1.3.3): > https://www.videohelp.com/software/FLAC-Encoder thanks again!

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FLAC converter

2019-08-26 Thread Julf
citabria327 wrote: > Thanks. so look for 'the reference flac encoder? https://xiph.org/flac/ "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 -