rick's cafe;77551 Wrote: > Could someone give me a brief idiots guide to FLAC Ripping vs WAV vs > MP3. I will be playing all my music on SB3 thru a Cambridge Audio 540R > ... any advice or recommendations welcomed. > > Also on avg what is the file size for a CD ripped as FLAC vs the rest > and what rippers do you recommend I use. > > thanks
As I'm sure many have pointed out, lossless is the "audiophile" approach. That being said, high bitrate VBR MP3 sounds great on all but fairly pricey gear and saves a ton of disk space. So, my advice is to rip in lossless (FLAC), and convert to MP3 for other uses (iPod, PC, or other non-critical listening). The reason I say this is that disk space is cheap and once you encode in lossless, you never have to go through the mechanical process of doing the CD swaps in order to rip again. That's a big deal (I say that having ripped several thousand CDs though, and having to do it twice was what it took to convince me to go lossless). I also say convert to MP3 because almost everything can play it - FLAC is limited in some areas (i.e., WMP, MCE, iTunes - though many alternative players exist). I originally ripped in 192K back MP3 in the day because disk space wasn't that cheap relative to the size of my collection. Now it is...and plenty of utilities exist to do conversion to your favorite format of the day from FLAC. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19976 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
