iPhone wrote: > I am following what you did now and it’s closer but I’m still not > convinced. Will rip a CD with MP3HD and see what I see. But this is all > still just storage. Is it really truly lossless when played back? If I > had an MP3HD player I could check it with the program Phil and I have > been using to check equipment.
So you understand that all of the audio information is present in the file, but you're not convinced as to the quality of the decoding software? Fair enough, I guess. AFAIK, the WinAmp plugin included with the encoder/decoder package is the only thing available right now that plays back the format. If that is poor in quality (I haven't done any double-blind listening tests or anything), that doesn't make the format not lossless any more than a bad gzip implementation makes the gzip format lossy. The data is all in there, so it definitely *can* be played back losslessly; if the bits are there, they can be played back. > Also, if the files are as large as they are, why bother? So what if the > file will supposedly play lossless on a MP3HD player and the same file > can be used on my iPhone. It takes up way to much room! I am still much > better off having the two libraries I have now. One ripped to FLAC and > one converted to MP3 from the FLAC files. PC/Server storage is big time > cheap and getting cheaper every day. Why would I have a single > collection of MP3HD files that is going to severally limit the number > of songs I can put on my iPhone? Couldn't agree more. I don't see the utility in this format. I do the same thing with parallel FLAC/AAC libraries. If iTunes could handle a hybrid lossy/lossless format like WavPack, I'd probably be on board with that, however. -Steve _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
