I have ripped a rather large number of files to WMA Lossless and am now
converting to FLAC.
To me the transcoding is not the problem, but lack of volume leveling
is. There is apparently no support for WMA Lossless volume leveling
tags in the SlimDevices system (hardware or software).
I listen
fauzigarib;126794 Wrote:
I've just started messing around with flac, and I found that it takes
forever! Of course, since I'm completely new at this, I could be doing
it completely incorrectly.
I downloaded EAC, and FLAC, and configured EAC to use an external
compression program and
kklemme;147671 Wrote:
I have ripped a rather large number of files to WMA Lossless and am now
converting to FLAC.
To me the transcoding is not the problem, but lack of volume leveling
is. There is apparently no support for WMA Lossless volume leveling
tags in the SlimDevices system
There should be no audible difference between EAC and Audiograbber FLAC
files at all (unless one of them is adding some gain compenstaion or
normalisation) otherwise they wouldn't be truly lossless.
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radish;147705 Wrote:
So just add replaygain tags to the FLACs - you can either do it while
converting or afterwards using something like foobar2000.
Actually, that's one of the main reasons I am changing to FLAC. I am
using replay gain. The problem is that there's no way to volume level
with
luga00;147706 Wrote:
There should be no audible difference between EAC and Audiograbber FLAC
files at all (unless one of them is adding some gain compenstaion or
normalisation) otherwise they wouldn't be truly lossless.
I think (and I'm about as a far from being audiophile as you can get
!)
Perhaps this thread is getting off-topic, but I wonder - on an undamaged
disc where EAC doesn't have to re-read, is EAC more accurate?
Does C2 error correction, Secure mode and Accurate Stream improve
reading beyond just brute-force re-reading?
I would think so, but I'm not sure how these
FWIW WMAL is definately a problem if you use a NAS such as Infrant. When
running the SB from the embedded SlimServer in the Infrant's OS, there
is *no* transcoding option. It refuses to open the file. Not the
end-all I know for a lot of users, but I wanted to point it out. Others
have commented
mkozlows Wrote:
I doubt it. The only devices that support WMA Lossless right now are
those that run a Microsoft operating system (Windows Mobile phones and
PDAs, Portable Media Centers, and of course PCs).
That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library, and the
server
andyg Wrote:
I think the major issue here is that Microsoft charges a license fee to
have a WMA Lossless decoder. FLAC has no such problems. You were
probably on the right path when you first chose FLAC. :) The good news
is you can easily convert your files to any other lossless format
fauzigarib Wrote:
mkozlows,That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library,
and the server transcode to FLAC is seamless.
What does this mean? I've just started messing around with flac, and I
found that it takes forever! Of course, since I'm completely new at
this, I could
I doubt it. The only devices that support WMA Lossless right now are
those that run a Microsoft operating system (Windows Mobile phones and
PDAs, Portable Media Centers, and of course PCs).
That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library, and the
server transcode to FLAC is
I think the major issue here is that Microsoft charges a license fee to
have a WMA Lossless decoder. FLAC has no such problems. You were
probably on the right path when you first chose FLAC. :) The good news
is you can easily convert your files to any other lossless format with
no loss of
mkozlows,
That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library, and the
server transcode to FLAC is seamless.
What does this mean? I've just started messing around with flac, and I
found that it takes forever! Of course, since I'm completely new at
this, I could be doing it completely
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