Lasse B;247974 Wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm recently a happy owner of Squeezebox. > I normaly use the encoder in my Phatnoise Music Manager when ripping my > CD's and among the options I found that I can use VBR - does any one > have experience of VBR in combination with the wireless Squeezebox ? > Will VBR improve the sound quality > or will it make the transfer of the wireless information to the > Squeezebox more sensetive for disturbances ? > > Thanks & Best Regards Lasse
If you choose to use MP3, use VBR. It gives much higher quality for the ave number of bits it uses. I found that the highest quality VBR usually used no more than 225-250Kb/s vs. 320Kb/s CBR. Having said that, I found that the PMM was not the best ripper in the world. Many of my bad disks blew threw on PMM with pops/clicks throughout. If you have the stomach to work through the setup, I recommend a better program such as the EAC/LAME combo. As Pat mentioned, FLAC is probably the best option due to perfect quality, but it is a little less compatible with portable players and obviously takes up more space on them. The primary benefit is that you'll never have to rip again since it is lossless. But, this usually drives people to maintain 2 collections (1 FLAC and 1 MP3 or other compatible with portable players). If this all sounds like a headache to you, then I recommend simply using MP3 high-quality VBR for now. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40947 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
