Also always rip lossles otherwise you will do it again some day. Lossles is not only about sound-quality .
A lossles rip is a backup of your music if the CD's get lost or damaged. A lossles rip can without losses be transcoded to other losles formats in the future without quality loss , now we solved the data migration problem . Use a free open source format like FLAC , you are no longer in the hands of big corporations (the codec can always be recreated by any literate programmer as the souce code is open) And FLAC is native to the squeezebox. 3 things that are absolutely essential and none about sound-quality :) If you are in the dark ages mp3 discard information to get smaller file sizes , that information is forever lost and can not be receated ever. But recent development in hard disk tech and proces makes file size a non problem- Also if you want to convert to another lossy format for a portable player or other uses, lossles files are superior to . Yes you can do that. on your computer take your lossles files and produce lossy mp3 copies for your iPod or similar. That is not hard to do. Portable things needs smaller file sizes if want a lot off songs with you. Converting between lossy formats as mp3 and AAC or mp3 to mp3 btw. Introduces further quality losses called "cascade coding artifacts". This is not good idea. What will happen in the futer when AAC becomes obselete (You can hear it on TV sometimes when a happles reporter have interwieved someone with a minidisc player (atrac) and the TV system uses mpeg2 . Or more often a radio reporter does this and then the show is sent as web radio to..) (You could argue that ALAC is also native to some Squeezboxes like Touch ,but all non apple alac is dependent on third party hacks and reverse engineering and don't support 24/96 or similar, so that is more fragile than you might think.) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84308 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
