gdg wrote:
> I have a high end sound system and I use my Ipod with very good hifi
> headphones. I want max sound quality. That's why I bought the 30 gig
> ipod (so that I could store full rez files).
Do iPod's even do FLAC? if not, you will need AIFF or MP3 or whatever it
supports.
Most people do not use their iPods to drive their audiophile
systems, so they have FLAC or other formats for the main
stereo, and just down convert for the mobile systems.
I'll leave it to the audiophile forum as to whether or not headphones
can be very good hi-fi.
> Ps I'm not asking which is the best format, but if and how I can can
> convert WAV files that have file information attached.
I didn't write anything about best. Flac and most other compressed
formats have tags, which let you include the
artist/genre/track/album/... information in the file so that
when you move it, especially to something without the directory
structure, you can still easily manage it.
On a Windows box, the program flacfrontend will convert
wave files to flac with the information as tags.
I believe that is what you are looking for, but for
non-windows computers, you'll need to (1) tell us what
OS you are running and (2) not use flacfrontend since it
is Windows only.
There is no difference in sound quality among lossless formats.
That is what lossless means. There may be differences in licensing
terms, or support for your planned hardware and O/S. and maybe
some on ease of use of the ripping, compression or management software.
While physically ripping CDs is time consuming, I find that managing
the collection, fixing tags that are wrong because of bad data in
cddb/freedb, or missing completely because I tend to listen to
music that is not popular and even in cddb/freedb, takes far
longer than sticking CDs into the computer and pressing 'extract'
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