I would also recommend FLAC, although before the new players (Touch and Radio) supported ALAC natively, i would have -highly- recommended FLAC.
EAC is indeed free, but can be a complete pain to use. It also has very poor tagging support and zero artwork support. dbPoweramp may cost money, but it is an excellent app and means you don't need anything else in your ripping/tagging workflow. -- funkstar my collection: *1*x squeezebox radio *1*x squeezebox touch *1*x squeezebox boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black), *1*x sb2 wired (silver) *1*x sb (black), *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70487 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch