Nonreality;317580 Wrote: 
> I would use apple lossless before wav. I know you can tag wav but's it
> far inferior to  a lossless format for tagging and space.  I really
> can't see why anyone would use wav for a portable device. Even with
> storage being cheap you can still store twice the amount of files with
> a lossless and tag them as well as any lossy file.  Why would you use
> up twice the hd space for no reason and much worse tagging
> capabilities?  

I used Apple lossless before. But then I bought a Palm TX (yeah
really), and that device didn’t support Apple lossless. Stubborn as I
am, I was going to use my digital library on my Palm. So, I converted
everything to AAC. 
That didn’t last for very long time either. My next purchase was a
Denon HD2500 Media player. Guess what? Denon doesn’t support AAC, it
only supports mp3 (no way) and wav. So, I had to re-rip everything
again. This time I chose wav because:

1)      Should I need a different format in the future again then wav can be
easily converted.
2)      WAV is uncompressed unlike mp3 (and AAC ...)
3)      I want only one library for all my digital music players

This is one of the biggest issues today with digital music. They all
seem to support different formats. Anyway, wave is the common format
for all my digital music players (SqueezeBox, iPod, HD2500 and Palm
TX). So wave it is.


Nonreality;317580 Wrote: 
> You do realize that the wav tags in Itunes are in the library and not in
> the files. At least I think that's the way it works in Itunes with wav
> although I have been know to be wrong once or twice before. :)

Yes I know and you’re not wrong. But since I needed my wav files to be
tagged for the Denon player, I created an application that reads the
iTunes library and writes the ID3v2.3 tags into my wav files. My
application uses the COM SDK from Apple. Works perfect and SC is happy
with that as well. Now all my digital music players are happy with my
digital library.


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