cdvsmp3
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2014
- Posts
- 32
- Likes
- 12
Thanks for the article. I share the same opinion about HD audio.
Thanks for the article. I share the same opinion about HD audio.
For me 24/96 is pushing it, any higher than that and well you know
As to respond to original post.
If your buying HD tracks try downloading a FLAC player from the Apple App Store. The best one I tried is called AmpliFlac and costs $9. There are also a bunch that are free. VLC is free. I also use FLAC Player by Khoa Tran Anh but the files are out of order and you gets unwanted adds showing up at the bottom of your screen. Lol
Anyway Apple DACs max out at 48 kHz still you can mix your iTunes library with your iDevice FLAC library and listen to both. I find even 24 / 96 HD tracks sound better than any files out of my Touch Gen 5, especially with AmpliFlac. Cheers.
iPod Classic doesn't have apps. I enjoy my 160Gb of space. Until the next thingamajigger is released, I stick to mp3 for mobile listening. No problem with WAV whatsoever on my computer.
Well, you know some 24/96 audio will sound better because it's been mastered better. So certainly the sampling rate and bit rate is not an advantage, but the version that is sometimes being sold is better than the 16/44.1. Then again, the mastering could be worse. LOL
I'm using the VLC player to play FLAC files with an Apple Touch Gen 5. Works flawless.
Movies in HD stutter but 24/96 music files are smooth as silk. The player is free and has no restrictions just a perfect program for Apple products.
Well, I'm not buying another DAP since my classic still works. All the other DAP's have a piss-poor price to storage ratio...
The only difference is compression amount, time it takes to compress and higher compression mode are a little slower to decode (you wont notice this on a modern PC or laptop.
I tend to use level 8 for my encodes. There isn't much of a space saving going from level 5 to level 8.
So I've just finished converting my WAVs to FLACs, and 123GB of music turns into 77GB... That is about 60% capacity saved