Hi Good move on the switch to lossless - you using FLAC for that? As far as knowing what the quality of burned CD's are; I don't think there is a way to tell straight off the CD. The discs are just Red Book standard (like your bought ones). Do you know if all of them were just "Copied" from another CD - in which case it is likely that they were copied like-for-like (ie, PCM data/RedBook) and would be good to go for conversion to lossless. If they were burnt from files from your PC then they may be of lower quality compressed tracks. Someone else might have a clue how to tell?
For a compressed file format, I think there are many variables. Do you want open source or proprietary? AAC locks you into Apples domain, MP3 is sudo non-proprietary, Ogg is the choice for Open Source I believe. The higher the bitrate the better in compressed formats - though some of the VBR files do a good job (try setting a minimum bitrate of 192k if you like). Not sure if any of the above helps... sorry! Nic -- DrNic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42702 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
