KeithL;261504 Wrote: > I tried MAX and found the tagging of aiffs very poor compared to the > complete support by iTunes. If Max could sort that out, I would happily > use it as I like the rest of the package, in particular the ability to > rip to more than one format simultaneously, high quality aiff for the > home and mp3 for the ipod. > > Point taken about iTunes not supporting flac. It does however fully > support mp3 and aiff/wav which are industry standard. > > Keith
AIFF/wav were never originally intended to support tagging, so anything that manages to tag them is kludgey, and not "industry standard." Flacs have customizable and extensible (for possible unforseeable future uses) tagging. Flac supports ReplayGain, standardized across platforms and devices. iTunes does its own volume leveling thing, which is also not any kind of industry standard. AFAIK, iTunes does not recognize ReplayGain tags on anything. Again, I'm more concerned about doing what I want to do, not what The Industry wants me to do. Flac is a broadly supported sound file format. Independent record labels, major bands such as Pearl Jam, and the whole crazy live music collector scene use it. I myself have over 600GB of flacs that I did not rip myself. Apple's refusal to recognize this widely used file format for mercenary purposes is frankly insulting to users. Another very important reason you should consider ripping to flac rather than aiff for archiving (and ditching iTunes), aside from the space savings, is that flac has internal checksums. If these files become at all corrupted it is immediately obvious. You can't tell if an aiff is corrupt or not until it begins to affect listenability, and of course you have to listen to it carefully enough to notice any problem to check it. -- bephillips More than 38,243 songs on 3028 albums by 2130 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3 and aac. SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15288 - Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41164 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
