On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:40 -0800, highdudgeon wrote: > That's a lot of replies in a short period of time -- and, yes, I left > out (or assumed) some critical information. My fault there. > > 1. I am an Apple user (OS 10.4.3). So, EAC is not an option for me. > 2. Therefore, I rip using iTunes and Apple Lossless. > > Yes, I've heard some criticism, here and there, of Apple Lossless. > Personally, it doesn't seem like I'm losing anything at all...but > opinions are always welcome; I've only just begun this process.
Doesn't OS-X have some sort of Windoz emulation support? Would it run EAC? Not that it is all that important to many. How about cdparanoia/grip from sourceforge? Its nominally for Linux but OS-X does have a real Unix base. Another alternative, altho not one step, would be to use some suitable Mac program to rip (extract really) to PCM .wav files and compress them to flac using one of the opensource tools. Neither Apple Lossless nor Microsoft Lossless have downsides today. The more paranoid amongst us worry about what DRM they will add in the future as the RIAA and Hollywood finally learn that file sharing is here to stay. Back to the original question, all of the lossless compression techniques including flac, apple/lossless, M$/lossless, MLP, etc get about the same compression ratio. So the number of CDs per hard drive is essentially the same. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
