Taylor8;262492 Wrote: > i dont want to waste the space on my hard drive of using a lossless > format on these discs if they are of lesser quality.
You might as well to avoid further degradation - if they were decompressed from MP3 and you compress them back to MP3 or AAC they will degrade even more. And disk space is cheap. > also, i have about 4000 songs on my old hard drive from itunes or > whatever, and they are ALL 128 bit rate. is there any hope for these > files? or are they just crap? If they have DRM you won't be able to play them on the Squeezebox anyway - the solution there is to copy them to CD and rip them losslessly. But there's nothing you can do to make these files better, the sonic data has been lost permanently, so if they sound bad to you they'll always sound bad. Which is why you should only rip in lossless or get high-bitrate, quality files without DRM. -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: "I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42702 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
