Any lossy format will lose you bits. Question is whether you can hear that loss - if not then I'd suggest it's not a problem! Try converting to 320k CBR mp3 and see if you can hear the difference. This http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=4938 is a good read - contains details of a tool within Foobar for testing if you can hear the difference.
The best method would be conversion to lossless, as you say, but again with formats it's never easy - FLAC is great with SqueezeBoxes but not everything plays it; apple lossless or windows media pro are your other mainstream choices. File size between the three is roughly the same I think, so it's a simple compatibility question from there. -- moley6knipe WinXP Pro SP3 > dBpoweramp Reference 13.1 > SqueezeCenter 7.4 24614 > Squeezebox 3 > ears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64894 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
