larrettp;301802 Wrote: > I know there was some criticism of my use of AAC (*.m4a) file types > earlier. I only used this because they all originate from iTunes and I > couldn't find a sensible way to convert them while maintaining the file > structure. anyway, I think I have found a piece of software which will > do this for me and I wanted to know what the opinion is for the best > quality file type I can convert to that can be handled easily by > Squeezecenter? > > Any suggestions? FLAC seems to be preferable to me but I could be > wrong.
If you convert the AAC files to something else you will lose quality. The only way to get better quality is to re-rip the music directly from CD into a loosless format (for example FLAC). If you want to re-rip them from CD I would choose like: - If you want to be able to use them from iTunes: Use Apple Lossless - If you don't need to use them from iTunes: Use FLAC If you rip them from CD into a lossless format you can always convert them to another lossless format without loosing quality, that's one of the advantages of using a lossless format compared to a lossy format such as AAC/MP3. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45261 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
