Mitch Harding;160159 Wrote: > Whenever you burn to a music CD, AFAIK the music is converted into PCM > format before burning. So the source format doesn't matter much > (except, of > course, if you are using lossy -- then your resulting CD will only be > as > good as the original file). > > For example, I use WinAmp sometimes to burn CDs from playlists that I > create. These playlists frequently have both mp3s and FLAC files in > them. > First WinAmp converts them all to PCM, and then it burns the CD. So I > don't > think any file format has an advantage in terms of CD burnability. > > If you're talking data CDs, though, that's different. I imagine very > few CD > players that can play music from data CDs can handle FLAC -- but I've > never > owned one, so I don't really know if this is true. > > > > > [/color]
Derrrr! A lacuna in the brain! Thanks Mitch. Of course, there's no reason Flac would not convert to PCM. Stupid of me. Is it my imagination, or are senior moments coming earlier this year? -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
