pski;554805 Wrote:
Car units that play FLAC?
The empeg for example plays FLACs with the final release of the
firmware they made back in 2004.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
iPhone;554753 Wrote:
Can't vouch for the better half as I don't know her, but dBpowerAmp is
my choice for Ripping, Converting, and Burning both Audio CDs from FLAC
(same as original CD) or MP3 (cram more songs on a CD). I also concert
FLAC to MP3 to put on my iPhone. It does all of these
scoob101;554899 Wrote:
Many thanks for the recommendation - Just taken a look at the prices and
its a bit too steep for something thats really a nice to have - $54+$18
for he family pack+17.5% tax=$84 AND 5$ a year after the 1st year for
metadata.
I think I`ll stick with WMA lossless and
aubuti;554904 Wrote:
I'd be wary of chaining myself to a proprietary codec like WMA (lossless
or lossy), and I also hate the way WMP litters my hard drive with little
files. But to each his/her own.
Yea, I know WMA is proprietry, but I`m of the opinion that if it aint
broke and all
scoob101;554906 Wrote:
I was just interested in reducing the network overhead for my wireless
SB radio`s, by going FLAC (I understand that WMA lossless is transcoded
to WAV, meaning a bigger overhead for the wireless network)
WMA lossless is transcoded to FLAC by default.
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I've been lurking here just keeping up with things:
Thanks to Gordon for recommending EZ-CDDA
I've been having some problems with rubyripper since Ubuntu 10.04 and
also had problems with my SATA DVD-ROM drive in my dual boot
WindowsXP/EAC but EZ-CDDA has great tagging options (I particularly
scoob101;554906 Wrote:
If I could get a ripper/burner for FLAC which was free or at least
cheap, then I may have a reason to change.
Right now, WMP12 works, and is free. For the moment at least, i can
live with pushing more data over my wifi than I have to.
Perhaps other products will
ian_heys;554922 Wrote:
I've been lurking here just keeping up with things:
Thanks to Gordon for recommending EZ-CDDA
I've been having some problems with rubyripper since Ubuntu 10.04 and
also had problems with my SATA DVD-ROM drive in my dual boot
WindowsXP/EAC but EZ-CDDA has great
I've ripped six or seven this afternoon (amongst other things) and had
no problems at all.
I've taken the plunge and bought the registration key.
Thanks again.
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ian_heys
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aubuti;554933 Wrote:
I hear you, although since several free alternatives have been mentioned
already it sounds like simplicity is at least equally important to you.
That's a hard call because one person's simplicity is another person's
complexity.
You`re bang on - simplicity is v
I have recently changed my players to be all squeezeboxes (2 radios and
a duet) and I love them. Its made me think that I would like to convert
the existing music collection from WMA lossless to FLAC, and then run
everything in FLAC (i.e. ripping new CD`s and, just as importantly,
burning FLAC
scoob101;554722 Wrote:
I have recently changed my players to be all squeezeboxes (2 radios and
a duet) and I love them. Its made me think that I would like to convert
the existing music collection from WMA lossless to FLAC, and then run
everything in FLAC (i.e. ripping new CD`s and, just as
Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player
supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and
FLACs in car.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
andynormancx;554755 Wrote:
Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player
supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and
FLACs in car.
I think you may be talking about playback from a portable player like
an iPod, Zune, or Sansa. There I would
andynormancx;554755 Wrote:
Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player
supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and
FLACs in car.
I think it depends on the car and the persons ears. I burned a bunch of
192k songs to 12 disks so I could
All I can say is you must have a very quiet car and very special ears
indeed.
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
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andynormancx;554755 Wrote:
Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player
supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and
FLACs in car.
But surely it is easier to maintain one set of music files than two?
I wish the CD player in my car would play
You're right that it's easier to maintain one library than two, but with
one of the various available tools (eg, dBpoweramp baatch converter,
flac2mp3.pl, mp3fs, etc) it doesn't take much more effort. And for some
of us the convenience is well worth the modest incremental effort.
Also, having
Any in car player that doesn't have room for all your music is the wrong
idea anyway ;)
*looks lovingly at the 64GB empeg in the corner*
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andynormancx
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
Assuming that you're talking about burning audio discs and not data
discs, check out the freeware Bun: http://www.burrrn.net/
Also, Foobar 2000 has a burninate extension which will allow you to
burn audio discs from flac sources.
I'm a big fan of Poikosoft's EZ-CDDA Extractor. Great
Car units that play FLAC?
I learn something every day.
Who makes these things? (Everybody?-- boy would I be humbled..)
P
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pski
real stereo makes the lights dim on the bass notes.
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I don't know about units made specifically for cars, but there are a lot
of options with portable music players. You can use Rockbox
(www.rockbox.org) to make several portable players FLAC-capable,
including iPods, SanDisk, Archos, Cowon, etc. And there are some
portable players that come
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