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192kbps WMA, or FLAC?

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lithium726

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ok, so im wanting to re-rip my entire cd collection becuase i can really tell the difference between even MP3 and WMA. i want to do lossless this time, as im 192kbps MP3 right now, and it sounds like crap (compared to lossless, that is..)

WMA does sound damn good, but im not sure if i should go wtih that or FLAC lossless. your thoughts?
 
Use FLAC. It's lossless. It's also not evil. Because it's open source, it has lots of support. Be sure to rip your CDs using Exact Audio Copy in secure mode. That way you only have to do it once. Then you can put your CDs in a closet and forget about them.
 
i know flac is lossless, thats why i was wanting to use it :) i have a concert that was taken from the sound system at the show and put into FLAC, and it sounds amazing

does anyone know of any hard drive-based portable players that support flac?
 
the iAudio has *.flac support

and yes flac is awesome but i also like ripping in ogg
 
Rio Karma. It also supports OGG. I tend to use OGG when storage space is at a premium, such as on my wife's Rio Karma.
 
lithium726 said:
i know flac is lossless, thats why i was wanting to use it :) i have a concert that was taken from the sound system at the show and put into FLAC, and it sounds amazing

does anyone know of any hard drive-based portable players that support flac?
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only one i can confirm is the rio karma. but you might want to steer clear of it; it has had many instances of hard drive failure after several months of non abusive use. other than the karma, im not aware of any other portable FLAC audio player. btw what is the concert recording of..? just curious :D
 
ok, exact audio copy hates me, i cant for the life of me get it to read that there are audio cd's my drive... audiograbber works fine:confused:
 
firey-eyez said:
only one i can confirm is the rio karma. but you might want to steer clear of it; it has had many instances of hard drive failure after several months of non abusive use. other than the karma, im not aware of any other portable FLAC audio player. btw what is the concert recording of..? just curious :D
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its primus, they distributed their entire "Tour De Fromage" on the net. i bought the one i went too


its really awesome. i get so pumped when i listen to that show

edit: can anyone give me the lowdown between flac and ogg? which is better and why? or which is better on which levels?
 
Definitely go for FLAC. It's pretty much the industry standard, and has hardware support on several levels, such as portable players and devices like the Squeezebox.
 
Flac is lossless. It's smaller than wav, but it'l still munch up 20 gigs prety quickly. Ogg is lossy, but still offers better soundquality at lower bitrates (100-160) than mp3. Ogg doesn't have bitrates per se, it has quality settings. My (informal) testing on my wife's Karma has shown "3" to be a pretty good setting for the stock headphones. At work, for my main headphone rig, I encode everything at 8. At home, I have stuff on a fileserver in FLAC.
 
MP3's ripped right at 256 sounds great. Iam not sure how ppl can tell the difference B/C sure as hell can't
 
Vengance_01 said:
MP3's ripped right at 256 sounds great. Iam not sure how ppl can tell the difference B/C sure as hell can't
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i can. lossless codecs and master CD's just sound so much cleaner than any bitrate MP3
 
I can ABX LAME --preset insane from FLAC every time on my headphone rig. I cannot do it on the $150 computer speakers I have. So, if you upgrade your equipment later, do you want to be limited by the fidelity of your media, or by the quality of your equipment? I prefer the latter, especially when I have ~450 gigs of storage on my file server.
 
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