geraint smith;138665 Wrote: > No, I checked, too, and you're quite right, and I was quite wrong, about > AAC and ALAC. Sorry! (That shows how much I use them!)
MP3 and AAC don't support gapless playback, but there are workarounds. Some MP3 players, for example, can do it. When I did some tests earlier today with AAC and ALAC tracks, I didn't hear any gaps. Its a bit confusing, since the Squeezebox isn't supposed to be able, as of yet, to remove the gaps. > I disagree about AIFF, though. In fact, I'd put it the other way round. > I don't see the point in NOT using aiff (or .wav). They are, > unarguably, the gold standard sonically, which one cannot say of any of > the compressed formats, about the relative merits of which or > differences between which there always seems to be some sort of barney > going on somewhere. There's lots else in favour of not using > compression - flexibility, rapidity of ripping, ability to > upsample/edit digitised vinyl, simplicity of processing, not to mention > all the things you can do with them on Squeezebox - that make make > ripping to anything else seem to me like spoiling the ship for a > ha'p'eth of tar. The only argument I can see in its favour is disc > space, but this is now so incredibly cheap that it seems to me like > false economy to stint on it and risk (perhaps) compromising the output > of, for instance, a five figure (or more) audio setup. I somewhat new at all this, but I'm a bit sceptical about the so-called "sonic superiority" of AIFF over FLAC or ALAC. I doubt anyone can tell the difference in a blind test. Maybe people 6 figure audio setups. I certainly can't tell them apart with my sad little 3 figure audio setup. ;-) But lets leave it at that. > Concerning tagging - now, you definitely lose me. I've never myself > found any shortcomings in or limitations to the labelling that I need > of Aiff files. This may well be because - being a benighted iTunes > user! - I don't know anything at all about it, and don't really know > what is possible. That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Lead me, > therefore, to tagging Nirvana, O Nostromo, for I comprehend it not. Like I said, I'm new at all this. I'm sure that somebody else could explain all this to you a lot better. Mmmm... I just ripped a file in WAV using iTunes. And it seems that you can label it just like any other file. There are no apparent limitations. That said, when you look at the file itself, there's almost no information (only the filename, basically). In other words, iTunes doesn't seem to write down the information on the music file itself. So if your computer crashes, and you loose all your music, you'll have to relabel everything, even though you backed up all your WAV's. -- Nostromo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27729 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
