guidof wrote: > Personally, I found that uncompressed FLAC sounds (marginally) better to > my ears than level 5 compression, which I had been using for a while. > The newest version of dbpoweramp lets you choose uncompressed, and that > is what I now use for all my rips. I acknowledge that whether or not > there are audible differences among compression settings is > controversial, but it's easy enough to compare a few files with > different compression ratios by yourself. If you detect no difference, > you will have saved yourself a few dollars in storage space and possibly > a little time in faster rips. ;-) > > The optical drive in the VBA is useful even if you don't rip from it, > for example when updating Fedora from an ISO disc or booting from a disc > as I had to do recently to change the loading cycle of the hard drive, > as mentioned in my prior post. > > Regards, > > Guido F.
Guido you are right I have noticed that option as well but I have never used it so far. At some point I would like to do that sort of comparison! Good point about the possibility of updating the Linux distro through the optical drive. I am so tempted to place the order in the weekend without being caught by my wife;) Anyways I would like to ask you the same question I asked to garym before. Is it iPengHD working fast while browsing your music collection? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ albertone74's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94923 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
