Hi Gordon. You won't lose any quality converting from WAV to apple lossless. Assuming that you then have all ID3 tags intact, if you can find a program to convert from apple lossless to FLAC or lossless WMA, then again there won't be any loss in quality.
Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer > Hi > I have just a query based on your reply. > I ripped all my large record collection to wav before I realised that the > ID > tags would not be preserved. I did so in ITunes and so because the Tags > are > in the library all the details remain. If I export to any of the Itunes > formats supported than the tags go with it however if I try to use an;y > other program only the name of the song and artist are copied from the wav > file. > My question is: I can use the Apple lossless codec in itunes to keep the > wav > lossless, or can I? Would this conversion result in a loss of quality, > however small, converting from wav to Apple? Alternatively is it possible > to > add formats to Itunes so that the wav files might be exported from Itunes > with their tags, ideally like a flec or lossless windows media format? > Thanks for any response. > Gordon McFarlane > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:55 PM > Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer > > >> The only thing I'd add to this note is that you have more choice these >> days >> than ripping to WAV format to get true CD quality results. Lossless WMA >> and >> FLAC are two formats that come to mind. Both of these formats will give >> you >> identical results to the original CD and WAV file but will yield slightly >> smaller files. Both will also provide ID3 tag support which WAV files >> will >> not. >> >> Regards. >> >> Kevin >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jerry Richer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:21 PM >> Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer >> >> >>> Kris: >>> >>> Of course you won't be interested in MP3 or any other compression >>> schemes. You will want to record your collection as wave files. Any >>> compression scheme results in lost quality which is noticeable by people >>> who >>> really appreciate listening to music. >>> You can record at most any quality you like. CD quality is good >>> enough >>> for most people. You can record with higher quality but I dare say that >>> most people could never tell the difference. 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