d6jg wrote: > In truth there is very little point having FLACs in car as opposed to > 320kbps MP3. You won't hear any difference even with top end Bose kit or > similar due to road and wind noise etc.
Or 192kbps for that matter except with particularly troublesome samples that produce artifacts (these are rare, and would be even more rare to hear in an automobile setting). In my own case, I keep a mirror image of my FLAC library as mp3s for use in my ipods, iphones, ipads (LAME -V2, which are ~192kbps; and this is overkill, in the noisy car, airplane, or gym environments these would be fine at 128 or 160 kbps). I know the OP didn't want to deal with a separate library. In my own case, I have about 100,000 tracks. I was able to create the mp3 mirror with an automated batch process that kept my subfolder organization, tags, file names, artwork, etc. And I can point and click to update the mp3 mirror library with newly added FLAC files (that is, I don't have to remember what I've already converted....the program remembers and knows to only convert the FLAC files that do not already exist as mp3). I use dbpoweramp, but there are lots of options for this task. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.4) > LMS 7.9.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4) > LMS 7.9.1 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win8(64) > LMS 7.9.1 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Transporter, Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108853 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
