pablolie;177207 Wrote: > > If you want better quality you'll need to rip a CD, or find a > > higher quality download. > > Apple iTunes typically gets notes for some of the best sound quality > online - and yet it's 128 kbps AAC. Which comes to show audiophile ears > don't need to look for downloads yet as a rule. :-( > > Conversion to another format is inevitable when one has a downloaded > library because > (a) SB will not play DRM AAC content from iTunes > (b) Even when it does, the DRM stuff has hickups over time. I have had > to contact support to regrant me a license for stuff I had bought, and > I can't see that operation being successful 10 years down the line! > > Someone else mentioned transcoding... I do the route via CD burn > because of that, the results are better than direct (and with protected > content even more questionable) transcoding routes. > > On another note, I see Winamp is compressing CDs at about ~650kbps as a > FLAC... I was expecting 700-800, is it possible that the Winamp FLAC > codec actually introduces some lossy compression (it can be configured > to, which given the name of the format does not seem to make a lot of > sense!).
Bitrates vary wildly from track to track. AFAIK it's not possible to introduce any lossy compression into FLAC. It would defeat the definition of the format after all! ;) -- Codmate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32369 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
