QDon;354126 Wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Thanks for the response. > > My PC is Windows and I use iTunes because I have an iPod. I currently > have iTunes set up to encode using AAC at 256kpbs. Using loseless on > the iPod would far exceed the size of its disk. Besides I doubt you > could hear any difference on the iPod between the two. However, is > there a significant difference listening to music on a home theater > system between loseless and AAC at 256kpbs? Can you hear the > difference? If yes I'm guessing the best scenario would be to leave my > iTunes library alone and just use it for the iPod and to re-rip using a > loseless format like FLAC for use with SqueezeCenter. Any new CDs would > get ripped twice. Does this sound correct? Any recommendations between > EAC or dbPowerAmp? > > Thanks again > Don
Back when I was making these decisions, I followed Nonreality's (and others') advice and I'm very happy that I did. My husbands' CDs had all been ripped in a lossy format (like .mp3), and the sound was not good enough when we started listening to them through our stereo system. So, now he's re-ripping everything into FLAC. The improvement in sound is significant. Also following Nonreality's advice, I switched my husband from iTunes to MediaMonkey, and he is very happy. He syncs his ipod through MediaMonkey. You can see my earlier posts about what I bought, etc., but I am happy with the products that seem to be most recommended on this board: dbPoweramp for ripping and MediaMonkey for organizing/fixing tags and i-pod syncing. Note that mediamonkey will transcode FLAC to mp3 on the fly as you sync your i-pod, so you don't have to worry that FLAC files are too big for i-pod use.(I haven't bothered with mp3tag, another tagging program.) You can do a search in the forums about each of those programs and see all the glowing reports. -- what_to_buy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ what_to_buy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51538 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
