nicketynick;217947 Wrote: > You can buy very expensive boxes that automatically rip CD's for you, > but otherwise, getting lossless (CD-quality) music files is still a bit > of a bleeding-edge exercise...Really, you can thank the RIAA for making > 'computer audio' difficult to get set up - they don't want you to do > it!
Truth be told I don't think it is that hard at all. Long before I'd heard of the Squeezebox I was ripping my CDs to WAV using Wavelab and creating my own CD based compilations. I later started keeping the ripped audio on my PC and then discovered FLAC (mp3 was never an option for anything but my iPod). It was through this process that I started searching for a digital library with means of playing the audio without having to go through the PC sound card. A little Googling, some reading of these forums and my mind was made up. I've never looked back. All you need to have digital music is some basic knowledge/ understanding and some freeware tools: eac/ grip, FLAC, mp3tag & slimserver. Now if only mp3tag had a native Linux version I could shut down my win pc forever. -- egd http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_transporter.html? >> http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/shopbycable/1800F.htm >> http://www.atc.gb.net/homeamplifier/sca2.html >> http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/shopbycable/1800F.htm >> http://www.atc.gb.net/domestic/scm100slat.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37190 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
