| Originally Posted by Nospam Umm... Have you taken a close look at converting between encoding formats in iTunes? It's really quite a simple process. I rip all my CDs into Apple Lossless, then convert them to 320AAC for use on my iPod. It doesn't get much simpler. You just go to "Preferences" and select the encoding format, then select the songs you want to convert, go to the "Advanced" menu, and select "Convert to xxx" (where xxx is whatever you selected in "Preferences"). Granted, you're limited to whatever encoding formats iTunes supports (no Ogg, for instance), but if you use an iPod, that's not an issue. Now, if you want to use Foobar, then FLAC would seem to be the obvious choice. |
| Originally Posted by Helter Skelter I prefer FLAC (.flac), as it still gets pretty good compression rates and is easy to decode no matter what compression level you use, and this along with the fact that it's a totally open source format has led to a fair amount of portable player support (Rio Karma, iRiver H-series, several iAudio players). Your iPod doesn't support either, though, and if you already use iTunes as your main music player, then I guess there's not a whole lot of reason not to use Apple Lossless. |
| Originally Posted by Brainfreeze Is ripping cd's to .wav files the only option if you want to have only one lossless format on your hard drive and use it for both itunes and an iaudio player? Are there advantages to apple lossless and flac that im losing if i go with wav? I use itunes and Im quite happy with it, and im looking into buying an iaudio player. I dont think want to get foobar either. I'd like to avoid any unnecessary converting if possible. Since this is so closely related to this topic i figured i wouldnt create another thread. |
| Originally Posted by Duckspeak Sadly, the answer to this question seems to be yes. Perhaps there are similar players that support AIFF, but not the iAudio. |
| Originally Posted by stefan I use Monkey’s Audio (APE): the user interface is simple, and it works so seamlessly with my favorite player, J River Media Center. |
| Originally Posted by Duckspeak Vote for Apple Lossless for above-mentioned reasons: it's easy and it's fast and it's supposedly optimized for iPod playback. Conversion is almost as easy as it gets, although it kind of annoys me how it interlaces the converted files with the originals--good solution to that is to make a smart playlist that orders all of your songs by when they were added to your library. Then just do a conversion and all the new files are lined up nicely in that playlist. (of course, to delete again, you need to do something clever--I change the Artist field for all those files to "BALEETED!" and then go back to the library view for the kill) ...the best solution, of course, is to bend iTunes to your will using Python scripts... |
| Originally Posted by Brainfreeze ...Are there advantages to apple lossless and flac that im losing if i go with wav?... |
