I use Max to burn my CDs to FLAC on my Macbook. Works great, and it's freeware.
FLAC and Apple Lossless should sound the same, since they're both lossless formats. I've gone with FLAC for several reasons. The most immediate is that I store my FLAC files and run Slimserver on an NAS server, and the version of Slimserver that works on my NAS can handle FLAC but not Apple Lossless. (Slimserver can handle Apple Lossless if you run it on a Mac that has iTunes installed, so if you're going to run the server on a Mac Mini and never switch over to a free standing server that won't be an issue for you.) I'm also more comfortable keeping my music files (over 200GB and still growing - it's taken months to get these copied!) in an open source, non-DRM format. Finally, I have my iPod files in the Apple format (but compressed), and using FLAC for the Squeezebox makes it simple to keep the two libraries separate. -- bobschneider ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobschneider's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33955 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
