If you use a Naim CD player you are probably a fairly committed audiophile, so should use the best systems available.
That starts with using EAC to rip to FLAC. The other possibility is DBPowerAmp. iTunes has no system for ensuring that the rip is accurate, so is best left in the skip. Once you have good FLACs, you have a perfect copy of your music, and can use it however you like. For my iPod I use the FLAC2MP3 script from Robin Bowes, a regular contributor here. Convert your entire library, and use iTunes to sync your iPod (iTunes is uite good and syncing a library that is bigger than your iPod, as mine is!). The main advantage of Robin's FLAC2MP3 is that it can go through and update tags. Since I listen mostly to classical music, I am often adding more and more info to my tags. As a new user, it may well take you some time to get your tagging system sorted. DBPowerAmp is also good at FLAC to Mp3 conversion. Either way, make sure you use the latest version of Lame, which gets better sounds at lower bitrates. Anyway, welcome to the new way to listen to music! Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36362 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
