Lossless audio files and more questions...

[Sonic Atrocity]

Any digital music players that have a flat response? I am willing to shell out cash!

 

[Sonic Atrocity]

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Isn't there only one aucdtect task manager? http://y-soft.org/English/products/auCDtect-Task-Manager/
 
RMAA measurements and facts are your friend, don't take the word of audiophiles.
Any difference I've heard between DACs, sound cards, onboard were marginal. The most obvious difference is always the frequency response, portable players and cheap cdplayers etc often aren't flat.
 
Clip+ is more than adequate sound quality, but if I recall right it wasn't entirely flat response either.
Honestly - I don't see why anyone would want a cd player at all. With this age of lossless files and huge space-saving hardrives, cds should be going the way vinyl should have - into the dumpster.

Well, vinyl has a particular sound. I can definitely see the appeal there. I can see some of the appeal for CD's too. When you get a CD you get the full scale artistic experience for the album (Tool fans will know what I'm talking about). Especially, if it's a concept album. But, I hate compact discs because they scratch easily and have a short duration. 

 

[Hybrys]

Clip+ or one of the other Sansa rockbox-able players should offer you the best FR, especially with the ability to equalize it as much as you might want.
 
As for your PMed question, EAC logs aren't often faked; the point of changing an MP3 to a FLAC is one of laziness/ignorance, not deception.  Just look over the EAC log quickly, if included.  If it says the output was to WAV/FLAC/ALAC/some other lossless codec, chances are it's legit.  That said, the only way to be sure is to use CDs to rip originals yourself.  I recommend it, atleast for albums you really love.

 

[Dalamar]

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As for your PMed question, EAC logs aren't often faked; the point of changing an MP3 to a FLAC is one of laziness/ignorance, not deception.  Just look over the EAC log quickly, if included.  If it says the output was to WAV/FLAC/ALAC/some other lossless codec, chances are it's legit.  That said, the only way to be sure is to use CDs to rip originals yourself.  I recommend it, atleast for albums you really love.

Clearly you haven't downloaded from many places then. I've had a lot from Share and a few other sites that were fake, most of them had faked logs.

 

[Hybrys]

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Clearly you haven't downloaded from many places then. I've had a lot from Share and a few other sites that were fake, most of them had faked logs.

 
I'm sorry I don't pirate more music?
 
As for the faked logs I've seen, most have just been files named EAC.log with no content.  Exclusions might include extremely popular things, where they're just jerks/lamers.  But, I like rarer music, like The Working Title and Spitalfield, which often ends up with more legit FLAC/EAC rips.
 
Did you honestly just sign up here to argue with people, by the way?  Your attitude is worse than Leeperry's.

 

[Flaapy]

What's the best windows program for ripping cd's to FLAC?

 

[Dalamar]

Ripping cds -> EAC. Foobar can do it too, think there was some addon component.

 

[KnightK]

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What's the best windows program for ripping cd's to FLAC?

EAC's by far the best.
 
Here's the best guide I know for it:
http://blowfish.be/eac/index.html

 

[Flaapy]

I'm using EAC to check a flac file and as a result I get status-ERROR and conclusion-CDDA 100%
 
Is that suppose to happen?

 

[Flaapy]

aucdtect I mean.

 

[Dalamar]

If it's aucdtect task manager and not vanilla aucdtect, it has a really dumb default setting that causes nonsense error messages. Forgot what setting it was. It's a useless tool for checking things that you ripped yourself.
 
To test your rips against other people's, you'd use... what was it... accurip?

 

[Sonic Atrocity]

Hmm, I am definitely going to continue paying attention to this conversation... 
 
I am looking to check all of my FLAC files to see if they are legitimate.

 

[Flaapy]

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If it's aucdtect task manager and not vanilla aucdtect, it has a really dumb default setting that causes nonsense error messages. Forgot what setting it was. It's a useless tool for checking things that you ripped yourself.
 
To test your rips against other people's, you'd use... what was it... accurip?

Where would I get vanilla aucdtect?

 

[Flaapy]

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If it's aucdtect task manager and not vanilla aucdtect, it has a really dumb default setting that causes nonsense error messages. Forgot what setting it was. It's a useless tool for checking things that you ripped yourself.
 
To test your rips against other people's, you'd use... what was it... accurip?

Where would I get vanilla aucdtect?

 

[C4rl]

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What's the best windows program for ripping cd's to FLAC?

[size=10pt]Another long time EAC user. It can be a bit daunting to set up for the first time user but once done, it’s done. After that you can then just plonk CD after CD into the draw in the safe knowledge that you are achieving the best possible rips from your CD’s.[/size]