jdt7385 wrote: > That is a very appealing alternative to reripping the CDs. Do you think > I lose any "real world" quality in the conversion? If not I am already > headed toward conversion city (first I must learn how to do the > conversion...then batch conversion, etc.; however, the dBpoweramp > documentation seems to be good, as you mention). Many thanks for your > help. You and the others on this forum have provided some really helpful > information, for which I am very grateful. Thanks to all of you.
WAV are lossless. FLAC is lossless. You won't lose *any* quality (real world or even theoretically). A conversion of lossless (wav) to lossless (FLAC) will result in the same audio data. Your FLAC files (after a batch conversion) will be EXACTLY the same data as the WAV files they were created from. I think the only reason people are hinting at reripping is that the WMA ripping process (or itunes) is not a secure process (unlike, for example, dbpoweramp or EAC). Now it it probably true that 95%+ of your WAV rips are perfect. The "secure ripper" value only kicks in on tracks that have issues (and by the way, this could be on first time played, new out of package CDs). In my thousands of rips, I'd say less than 5% have any problems (i.e., would have been perfect rips on about any old ripper). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95312 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
