[jonoliew]

Hello! I'm just looking for a great file format to use with a great software. Got confused.. mp3 or flac or lossless? And itunes and all the other stuff? Any recommendations?

Would your file format work on the ipod too?

 

[Duke309]

dbPowerAmp ripping to Flac, really easy to use and very fast too.

Flac is the free lossless audio codec, and since its a loseless audio format it is a great choice.

 

[jonoliew]

lol. forgot to add that does the file format you recommended work on the ipod?

 

[Duke309]

I use mediamonkey to convert my files to 192kpbs mp3s since I only have a 4Gb ipod nano. If you have one of the bigger ipods, the optimal solution would probably be to stick Rockbox on it and keep with the Flac.

 

[tjumper78]

i use EAC to pull out FLAC from CDs.
Then Foobar2000 + Lame to convert FLAC to mp3.
i use mp3 V0 (pretty much the same quality as 320kbps but smaller in size, and i dont hear any difference between mp3 V0 and FLAC) on my ipod classic.

 

[krmathis]

Max
Its open-source, feature rich and works very well. Just what I need...

 

[Clutz]

Max here too

 

[cconnaker]

iTunes with error correction into AIFF.

 

[Tarkovsky]

Max, as it uses the cdparanoia ripper, which arguably works better than a £10,000 cd player.

 

[nick_charles]

EAC and the lame encoder to encode stuff as MP3 on my desktop

FooBar and the lame encoder to encode stuff to MP3 on my laptop , since my laptop drive is really slow in EAC but really fast in FooBar

 

[brainsalad]

Music Converter All-In-One: Easy CD-DA Extractor

CD -> FLAC -> 320kbps MP3 ->Ipud

 

[Dr.Love]

dB Power Amp. Works Great!

 

[jonoliew]

lol. even more confused now ahaha. Quite a few people like this Max thing

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonoliew /img/forum/go_quote.gif lol. even more confused now ahaha. Quite a few people like this Max thing

He he
Link, if you want to check it out further. Max from sbooth.org

 

[xenithon]

EAC for PC, Max for Mac. I usually use EAC (simply as I am pedantic about ripping quality

) and Max for converting FLAC to ALAC. I also use XLD for splitting single files with CUE sheets.

For anyone using XLD, do you always split to WAV, or direct to ALAC? I would be a bit worried splitting e.g. APE files directly to ALAC as it implies that XLD does that conversion and I am not sure about its conversion abilities.