JJZolx Wrote: > If you're going to use compression, why not mp3 and mp3gain? It's a > more universal format than WMA, so in the future you might play the > files on an iPod or other portable. ... because I'm such a musical gourmand that my Zen is always stuffed to the gills, and I can get 1/3 more music on it if I use WMA rather than mp3! (I'm sure a bigger Zen would just take slightly longer to fill up, too...)
The idea is not to keep the WMA files on the hard drive, since I can always regenerate from FLAC if needs be (so long as the generation can be batched reasonably). So it wouldn't be any more work to switch to a different format later. (Of course, it's far from that simple. For historical reasons, a lot of my DB is still only in fairly low-rate WMA, which makes for all sorts of pain, not least because WMA and ReplayGain don't go together. I wonder if I could transcode the WMAs to something more flexible, but without further lossiness? I've already discovered the hard way that transcoding WMA from 160k to 96k is more lossy than ripping straight to 96k...) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23386 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
