[Leporello]

Used to rip in 192 kbit WMA, but after a bout of audiophilia nervosa I changed to 320 kbit MP3. Planning to upgrade to wav when I purchase an 8 Gb portable player. Hard disk space is not really an issue anymore.


Regards,

L.

 

[Duggeh]

Apple lossless rips of CDs, I convert versions to 192 MP3 for my iPod.

 

[Uncle Erik]

ALAC for home audio, MP3/ADC for the iPod.

 

[wax4213]

FLAC level 8 for home, LAME mp3 v2 for portable use.

 

[wanderman]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Febs Archiving: WavPack Portable: LAME 3.97 -V 5 --vbr-new

same but I use 3.97 -V 2 -- vbrnew for portable. Febs have you played around with wavpack 4.4a at all?

 

[Kees]

WAV

 

[xand1x]

FLAC level 8

 

[JJN]

Flac level 8 ditto.

 

[FA22RaptorF22]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kees WAV

hah me too, but wav is not a codec, but a file extension. (.wav) We both use PCM. what a waste of space lol.

and, not another "which codec thread".................aaaaaaaa

 

[TBSN]

I'm having sudden doubts about iTunes' AAC encoder... I know that at lower bitrates it's better than LAME mp3, but at higher ones? Damn, I'm so paranoid...
Question: with FLAC, is there lag during playback because it has to decode?

 

[wax4213]

There's no noticeable lagtime on any computer that isn't completely ancient, at least not through foobar. I can play gapless with my FLAC files, so I'm pretty sure that means that there's no lag in there. At least it's gapless to my ears.

 

[Digitalbath3737]

Portable: Lame V2
Archiving FLAC level 8

I plan to use FLAC 8 on my home rig that I'm currently in the process of building.