atchi123;572905 Wrote: > hindsight is a wonderful thing with digital audio! i've been through the > naive process of originally ripping everything in iTunes @128kbps, then > re-ripping in Apple Lossless and now having to change to FLAC lol. > I think I'll select my favourite albums and re-rip them first. Here's something else you can do to help decide if you should re-rip instead of simply converting ALAC-->FLAC.
1. Take your most beaten up, scratched CDs and re-rip with EAC or dBpoweramp, using AccurateRip or at least secure rip (ie, repeatedly rip it until it gives two identical rips, which EAC and dBpoweramp do automatically if you configure them correctly). 2. Encode that to FLAC (also automatically done by EAC or dBpa if configured correctly). 3. Then take the files for that same album as ripped by iTunes and convert them to FLAC using dBpoweramp Batch Converter or other tool. Make sure that the FLAC compression level is the same as what you used in step 1. 4. Compare the two sets of files. You can do this via the FLAC checksums, or using a utility like diff. They should be perfectly identical. If they're not, then you have errors in the iTunes-ripped files. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81564 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
