If you're using iTunes, especially on a Mac, then AIFF is much more usable than WAV because it also takes the full range of tags. The other alternative is ALAC (Apple Lossless) which is great for iTunes, great for iPod, but has the minor drawback for Squeezeboxes that you can't FF or RW in it, merely skip. That's why I use aiff for Squeezeboxes, Apple Lossless for my large iPod, and AAC+ for the family's small ones (touch and Nano).
Otherwise, if you want all the handy features of AIFF and ALAC, as others have said, you have to use FLAC, which iTunes won't handle. AAC+ is fine for an iPod, but I'd always keep a lossless (ie aiff or flac) copy because AAC (or MP3) chucks away information, and you if at some time you decide you really would rather that all those carefully recorded bits had not been thrown in the bin, (you find you can hear the difference, for instance), it's too late once they're gone, and you have to go through the hideous chore of re-ripping and re-tagging your entire library if you want them back. On 15 Jan 2010, at 04:13, H Rusak wrote: > > I am about to rip my entire cd collection (1000+) and am wondering > which > format to use. I was planning on using iTunes to rip cds and then > stream over wifi to squeezebox touch (when released). I am thinking > it > best to use WAV (as opposed to Apple Lossless), but are there issues > with streaming WAV size files (given that Squeezebox is limited to G). > Is there a better solution? > > > -- > H Rusak > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > H Rusak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35803 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74046 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
