what_to_buy;355516 Wrote: > 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. If you use MediaMonkey you do not have to rip to two > formats; you just rip to lossless (FLAC) and then have MediaMonkey > convert during each sync to smaller mp3 files for your i-pod. > > (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.
Hi there and thanks for complements. How is everything working out? Sounds like you are having fun. You were one person that really looked into everything before you jumped in, and I was impressed. Very glad to have passed on things that I've just learned from others to you. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51538 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
