--- mswlogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What the advantages and disadvantages between using these 2 lossless > formats. > > Windows Media Player makes it so easy to rip (with Error Correction > enabled). > > I know how to use EAC but it's more time consuming to use. Not sure > it's doing all that much better. > > Are there reasons to use FLAC over WMA lossless?
there are reports that WMA lossless is not always lossless: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50907&st=0&p=459392&#entry459392 ...and it cannot detect when a file has been corrupted: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50907&st=0&p=459401&#entry459401 it also encodes and decodes more slowly than FLAC. compression may be ~1% higher, but for that there are other better codecs. > Sometimes I feel folks use FLAC simply because they are Anti > Microsoft. you actually have to be strongly pro-microsoft and totally hogtied to WMP before WMA lossless makes sense. for every other situation there are better alternatives. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
