No difference in quality between ALAC and FLAC but you will find most people favour FLAC because it is non-proprietary code unlike Apple's.
Lots of user support and development going on with FLAC as well, hence the following. Choose carefully as once you have ripped in one format it is a pain to change. I started out ripping my CD's to ALAC as I thought the iTunes interface was better but eventually succumbed from the weight of opinion and re-did everything in FLAC, and have not regretted it. All my FLAC music files can be converted to MP3 to use on my iPod using foobar2000 or batch processed using the FLAC2MP3 script. As the SB3 does on the fly FLAC decoding it will also use less bandwidth. EAC is supposed to produce more accurate CD rips, or at least tell you if there are deficiencies whilst iTunes will go blindly on. If you are thinking of trading music FLAC is the defacto lossless standard. So a case of an easy Apple life or follow the 'in-crowd' for a bit of fun! -- Heuer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34953 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
