[Slightly OT content!]
On Sun May 31 17:16:28 BST 2015, Jim web wrote:
when I have had to transcode aac or mp3
I convert it to LPCM (wave) or flac
so I'm losing as little as possible.
In effect the result sounds like the source.
Has its flaws, but without additional damage.
Could be highly impracticle though, at times... :-{
I do own an old and cheap portable audio player,
that can only cope with MP3 (has to be CBR),
WMA & WAV; its internal Flash Memory is only
1GB, its write speed barely borders 1MBps.
When flashaudio radiomode was available for
roughly all BBC Radio, all was fine. Then
National Radios changed to flashaac, flashaudio
left only for Nations Radio (which was true until
very recently, just before the Audio Factory changes...).
I try to avoid transcoding as much as possible,
so for National Radio I turned to the compatible
wma radiomodes (which I downloaded via
specialised software, not GiP, because mplayer,
used inside GiP to dump wma, was very fickle...).
Now the WMA modes are also gone, I have to either
transcode flashaac radiomodes or - as you said -
"bin" my otherwise working player...
Transcoding (or decoding?) to WAV is simply
out of the question for me, because either the huge
file size of the uncompressed audio file would not fit
inside the memory storage (a 3hr long programme
would be > 1.5 GiB) and even if it would fit, it
would take excrutiatingly long to transfer from my
laptop at < 1MBps!...
Cheers,
V.
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