harmonic;155183 Wrote: > Damm i wise SD would make one simple do it all ripping program
No need to reinvent the wheel - there are a fair amount of really good, free ones out there. Slim Devices should concentrate on the hardware and the server. > This heroics where is this found it dossent seem to be on on the serach > results when i use google OK, we've hit a language barrier here. "Heroics" is not a company nor a product. What it means is that you're going to great lengths and great effort. So you can go to great lengths and great effort to convert 16-bit material into 24-bit. You can take the 16-bit WAV, import it into 'Audacity' (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and save it as 24-bit - you'll then get a 24-bit, 44.1 kHz WAV, which you can then convert to FLAC (and will have to tag from scratch). But it won't make any difference - the resolution was not there to begin with, so you haven't added anything. As adamslim indicates, you're just adding zeroes to make it 24-bit. Might as well make it 32-bit, 48-bit, etc., still won't make any difference. To use 24-bit, you need material that was specifically encoded in it. That's audio off a video DVD, DVD-A or SACD. This material will be limited as DVD-A is hard to rip and SACD is virtually impossible to rip. I believe those who record vinyl into digital format use 24-bit resolution if their equipment is capable of it. 16-bit is a thing of the late 70s/early 80s when the CD standard was adopted. 24-bit is what would be used now. They're still not using the full capability of 16-bit recording though - the hypercompression present in today's CDs means they don't care about the resolution and dynamic range it can offer. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29738 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
