What does he use to convert from that format to anything else he might want for use on a portable player?
----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Lloyd To: PC Audio Discussion List Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:43 AM Subject: Re: The Best Ripping format again Hi Gordon. In my opinion, you won't go wrong with WMA lossless. You're guaranteed no loss of quality at the smallest file size with full support for id3 tags. WMA is probably the most well supported format and as it's proprietary to Microsoft, you won't be left with a pup in a few years time as you may be with other niche formats. Don't know if this is supported by the i-tunes interface as I use windows media player library and a program called audigen to manage my music collection. I bought audigen some years ago when media player wasn't as accessible and powerful as it is today but both are great programs for organising music, building playlists, editing tags and much more. I currently have my music collection connected to a Roksan amp and Tannoy speakers so can vouch for the quality of the resulting ripped music. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC-Audio" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:34 AM Subject: The Best Ripping format again > Hi > Apologies for returning to this perennial problem. > Before I realised it a while ago I ripped my entire collection of music in > Itunes to the wav format in order to preserve best quality. I since > discovered I had no tags except those preserved in the Itunes library. In > Itunes the files are tagged but taking them outside of this, they lose > them. I Can however maintain the tags if I convert the files withing > Itunes to Apple lossless or mp3. > Having messed up my library by trying to clean it up I now find that there > are about 100 albums missing. I'm now considering re-ripping everything > into a lossless tagged format. I like the Itunes interface but does this > limit me to Apple lossless? Also I have converted some of my wav files to > Apple lossless and I thought I noticed some deterioration - is this > possible? > Is there something better? How about Windows Media files lossless or flec? > I know lossless should mean lossless but does it. I really want to rip at > the best then convert to different formats to my heart's content while > maintaining the tag, and somewhere along the way still use Itunes > interface. > Any suggestions from that great body of experience out there? > One final point are there ways of ripping more than one CD at a time? > Thanks in advance. > Gordon McFarlane > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.29/1124 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 10:12 AM Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
