boomslang06
New Head-Fier
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986 songs, most are flac
986 songs, most are flac
ive started going through my albums and re-ripping 16bit / 44.1kHz AIFF files... i'm up to 62 albums/992 songs so far...i've got a lot to go...
Why in the world would you rip to AIFF? :blink:
It's a taggable 'reference' format. As in taggable and a straight CD copy that can then be copied as needed. I do the same thing.
Interesting.....I didn't know it was taggable.
Rip in 24-bit in AIFF instead, to allow for DSP in the future.
Quote:Rip in 24-bit in AIFF instead, to allow for DSP in the future.
What's the point in that? The standard CD format is 16-bit/44.1khz. Now if you have SACD (or something similar), then that's a different story..
It's called digital headroom; you lose audio information if you use DSP when you listen. If you don't ever want to do any DSP functions (like equalizing the frequencies or adjusting the volume in the digital domain) now or in the future, then rip away in 16-bit. For SACD you would want to rip in 32-bit if possible.
Quote:It's called digital headroom; you lose audio information if you use DSP when you listen. If you don't ever want to do any DSP functions (like equalizing the frequencies or adjusting the volume in the digital domain) now or in the future, then rip away in 16-bit. For SACD you would want to rip in 32-bit if possible.
I didn't even know you could rip an SACD (unless you're talking about recording from the analog outputs, similar to a needle drop).
It's called digital headroom; you lose audio information if you use DSP when you listen. If you don't ever want to do any DSP functions (like equalizing the frequencies or adjusting the volume in the digital domain) now or in the future, then rip away in 16-bit. For SACD you would want to rip in 32-bit if possible.