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Jul 27, 2005 | 3:48 pm

#16

LIH Prem

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Personally, I can't fathom why anybody would choose wma as their native format, but to each their own, I guess. That's why we have choices.

-David

Jul 27, 2005 | 5:29 pm

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RLG

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LIH Prem

Personally, I can't fathom why anybody would choose wma as their native format, but to each their own, I guess. That's why we have choices.

-David

I vaguely recall that if you're going to extremely compress the files (i.e. very low bitrates), wma gives better quality for the same size than mp3. since i'm using a high bitrate, mp3 is better.

Jul 27, 2005 | 7:56 pm

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richarddd

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http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/ is the FT of these types of audio issues.

Jul 27, 2005 | 8:08 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LIH Prem

Personally, I can't fathom why anybody would choose wma as their native format, but to each their own, I guess. That's why we have choices.

-David

Its higher quality at a lower bitrate than than mp3 and compatible with my player.

Jul 27, 2005 | 9:50 pm

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GregLeg

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Originally Posted by RLG

I don't use that feature because it slows down the ripping process while it does the computation intensive compression. I prefer to have it do the part which requires manual intervention (inserting & removing CD's) quickly, then run the other part overnite when I'm sleeping.

I do exactly the same thing. Take a stack of CDs, copy them to WAV with EAC (which also does lots of error correction and the like in case a CD happens to have a scratch, as some of my 16 year old CDs now unfortunatley do), and then run a batch file to bulk encode them overnight.

Aug 5, 2005 | 12:43 am

#21

Coathanger

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Am I the only one that uses Apple's Lossless codec? It does a pretty good job of sound preservation, though 40MB for a 3 min track is abit heavy on the memory.

I especially use Lossless for instrumental CD's.

Aug 5, 2005 | 7:22 am

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My DAP directly supports FLAC so I RIP CD's directly to FLAC using jetAudio and then drag an drop them to the DAP.

Aug 13, 2005 | 7:05 pm

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I just discovered a service that I wish I had known about sooner.

www.awaken.com will rip your CDs for you in your choice of several formats and bit rates and send them back to you with all your CDS in the chosen format organized on DVD. During the process, they'll repair scratches and organize by Artist, Title and genre

For a slightly higher fee, they'll also organize your CDs and cover art in a binder.

What a great idea! I still have about 150 CDs I haven't gotten around to ripping, so they are going off to them next week.