Dan Goodinson Wrote: > I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers > on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions > from > some audiophiles... > > I've always used MP3, and on my cheap-ass stereo it sounds fine. > Personally, I actually thought MP3 was fine so long as you went for a > higher quality (e.g. 320kbps vs 92kbps - I normally use 160 due as a > trade-off between filesize and quality). But I only just realised > from > reading the mailing list that FLAC is superior to MP3. > > So FLAC is lossless? Yep. Dan Goodinson Wrote: > And MP3 is lossy? Yep. Dan Goodinson Wrote: > Can you encode to FLAC with > different levels of quality in the same way as with MP3? (e.g. will a > 320kbps MP3 be better than a low quality FLAC, or doesn't it work like > that?) Kinda. You can enforce different levels of compression, reducing filesize, but compressing the data will take more processor power. The format remains lossless, though, whatever the compression setting. (The processing power needed to /decompress/ FLACs is independent of the compression level used) Dan Goodinson Wrote: > I've never used FLAC before, but wondering if I should start re-ripping > my music collection... Clearly it wouldn't make a difference right now > but it would benefit me once I get round to getting a proper stereo > system... It's up to you.
The big win with FLAC is that you can rip once to flac, then convert those FLAC files to MP3 or OGG or whatever the lossy-format-du-jour is. Then, when you buy a new Digital Audio Player in ten years' time, you can convert the FLACs to whatever whizzy new audio format it uses... without having to rip from CD again. -- mflint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17998 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
