I don`t really want to use my iPod since I can't put FLAC files on it and because was looking for a more home setup. I wanted to buy a laptop anyway, so I was thinking, I could put the money I save towards a laptop. But since I need a DAC then, would it be a bad idea to get the E7/E9 and the...

So what would be the better plan? Going all out and big or just starting small?

So if I get the SR80i or SR60i I won't need an amp or anything and they will sound fine? I guess I can get though and then go from there.   EDIT: Also, are they JUST good for rock? Like if I listen to hip hop on them, will it sound horrible?

So I would get the best sounds out of going with the D7000s? Are they open or closed? What's the difference? And do you guys agree that if I'm just starting out with audio equipment I should go with headphones and not an speakers and stuff? Thanks for the help!

Something for my house where I can sit down and listen to music that sounds really good, I don't know a whole bunch though so what would I need? What would you guys recommend? I'm thinking going the headphone route would be the best as anything else would probably be wildly expensive. I was...

Quote: Originally Posted by Halftrack Maybe it got mixed up? Did you try doing this for one album at a time? Yeah, that's what I was doing and it changed the album names/years of some of them and I don't want it to. It also retagged all my songs a couple of times, but in the...

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So I got mp3tags to add artwork to my albums and it was working fine until I noticed it had changed all my tags and screwed around with stuff like years and got my songs tagged as different songs on the albums. But it only happened on some albums. I JUST want the stupid thing to give me artwork...

So I bought a used CD and ripped it using EAC. Everything ripped perfectly except for one track. Tried cleaning it by rubbing it, nothing. Tried ripping it in dBpoweramp, nothing. So my question is... Is there a way to clean the disc to make it work, like get rid of the scratch or whatever...

No, it's not actually embedding the artwork into the .mp3 files, I don't know how to do that. >.> For some reason, the album art downloader just puts the files in the music folder...

I know iTunes sucks, but I'm only using it to sync my iPhone. I've been reuploading my library as mp3s, and have been using Album Art Downloader to download the album artwork. This works great, except that when I put those folders into iTunes, it doesn't pick up on the artwork. What. How can I...

Do I need to do anything different in EAC? I use LAME to encode it through EAC as V0, and when I put it in iTunes for syncing I wanted to see what it said for the bitrates and noticed the mono CDs were listed with a significantly lower bitrate than the stereo ones (obviously it said VBR beside...

Uhh... So I've been ripping more CDs and came across something else weird. Two of my CDs were showing the gaps as 0. I tried both A and B and on like one track with B (excluding the first one of course) had like a 1 or 2 second gap (or millisecond, or whatever the lowest decimal is), but that...

>.> I said I bought it recently but it was used. So it probably is scratched. I'll try it in burst mode (I do care about accuracy, but if I'm having trouble with one song, I just want it ripped) and if not I'll try dbPowerAmp. I just don't want to have to set up another program first.

Just thought I'd say that the CD is a CD I just recently bought used and ripped after that. But isn't it weird that only one track isn't ripping properly? =/ Oh and I'm listening to it in a CD player right now and it sounds fine... No skipping or anything... There are scratches on the...

The guide I followed said to make sure it was off for some reason. Should I turn it on anyway? Wait, I just checked by testing it and it said my drive didn't support it...

Read/sync errors. But only with one song. I'll try the C2 error correction, I only have access to one drive on this PC though.

Quote: Originally Posted by chinesekiwi Yes, it can play ALAC but tbh, I wouldn't bother putting lossless on portables and would rather use 192kbps AAC on an iPod. 192 kbps AAC > 320 kbps mp3 for sound quality and uses less bitrate. (I've got scientific spectrogram evidence for this...

Okay, so I'm a newbie to using EAC, but I followed a guide (recommended here) and have been ripping V0 mp3s. I was ripping a CD and when it finished, one track hadn't ripped properly. I cleaned the disc and tried again. It still won't rip. Just this one song. What can I do about it, if anything?

Also what's the difference between V0 and V2?

One last thing -- I kind of changed my mind, I also want to put it in FLAC first so I have it. But the guide only talks about going either straight to FLAC or lossy, how do I convert FLAC to lossy?

Okay thanks! I'm actually kind of scared to switch over to Win7 now though, because I will have to do all this then rip everything before I can sync my iPhone again. :S

Okay so I can use EAC to rip it and then LAME to convert it?

Okay, so I'm not sure if this is the right section, sorry if it's not... Now, prior to really learning a lot, I had ripped all my music using iTunes. Now I am going to be wiping my hard drive to install Windows 7, I figure this would be the perfect time to reupload everything. But after...

Okay, so I tried the Sensaphonics test... It worked, sort of. I could clearly hear both tones, but the bass seemed to be quieter... Well, actually maybe not quieter, maybe it was the same volume and just seemed quieter because it wasn't so shrill... But there did seem to be anything wrong.