On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:57 -0700, bjmacdow wrote: > WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough > quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS > receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process > is that I would not be able to hear much of a difference between 192 > and a higher standard.
This is really a personal question. Can you hear enough difference to care? It is easy to do a quick test, rip a good sounding CD both ways, and listen to them both. If you can't tell a difference, be happy. I believe that I can hear a difference, and using FLAC, the files are only two or three times larger than high rate MP3. And disk drives are essentially free. So for me, FLAC is it. There is one non-subjective reason to consider flac. Since it is allows you to recreate bit exact audio, you can change your mind later and transcode the audio into any format without any loss other than that caused by the target audio. So if sometime down stream, you want all your files in WMA or OggVorbis, you can take the FLAC, convert back to the original wav files, and then convert to what you want and know you have done no harm. Once you use a lossy compression like MP3, it is lost forever and you'd have to manually re-rip all your CDs. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
