Cleve Wrote: > Assuming you wish to maintain perfect audio fidelity, 500-700 Mb for an > uncompressed AIFF or WAV file depending on the length of an album. At an > average of 600 Mb, your 300 Gb drive would hold a whopping 500 albums. > That's without even messing with FLAC or other lossless compressions. > With FLAC, the number increases to 800 albums or so. But storage so > dirt cheap these days, and it being so easy to slave HDDs, or add > additional HDDs, I don't know why anyone would mess with FLAC or other > lossless compressions unless they're just plain into codecs. > > I've been slowly ripping all my albums to AIFF files via Itunes - I've > got 61 albums so far on my hard drive, and the folder size is only 32 > Gb.
Sorry, if you want my opinion do not follow this advice. Cleve might be happy if he is paranoid that FLAC might be losing something (it doesn't, ask the guys at hydrogenaudio). But the irnoic thing is if he has a little demon on his hard disk that poops on one of his WAV files and changes a few bytes he won't know ! He will still play the WAV, and still imagine it's lossless when it's been changed. All this as well as wasting space. Now if he had encoded to FLAC, whilst playing FLAC would have stopped - he'd run flac's verify option against the file which would inform him that his lossless audio was pooped. He could either re-rip again or if he didn't have the CD (naughty boy) he could tell FLAC to try and play it ignoring the errors (so it would sound like his pooped WAV) and then convert this into another FLAC which would obviously be a non-lossless recovery. -- Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18552 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
