I'm actually really interested in this as well. My wife and I both have iPODs and I've ripped my entire 800 CD's to MP3's and I'm planning on doing it again to FLAC and putting my CD's away in the closet rather than keeping them on shelves. The squeezebox is now going to be a key component in my digital audio portion of my stereo.
So I would like to be able to organize my music and deal with artists etc and be able to download the MP3 versions to our ipods, and only play FLAC versions to the squeezebox. So far, my mental solution is to keep two separate libraries and manage them independently. Ideally, I'd like to have the music I typically enjoy ripped to FLAC for the squeezebox, and more casual music only ripped to MP3 and be able to "see" the MP3 library as well. If there is a linking between libraries to be able to play MP3's that don't have a FLAC version, then the SB system needs to be smart enough to play the FLAC file if there are both a FLAC and an MP3. I suspect that all this "if then" stuff is beating a dead horse and I should always rip to FLAC and then re-rip from flac to MP3. The FLAC data is HUGE compared to the MP3 data, and I will always have duplicate libraries. I do think this is an issue for many ipod carrying audiophiles. Or at least semi-audiophiles. I am willing to take a little hit in sound quality to have a huge library on the pod, but not for the home stereo. So how are you others handling both FLAC and MP3 versions of the same music? Sheldon -- stokessd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stokessd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3470 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19011 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
