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Subject: Re: WAV vs FLAC vs AIFF - msg#00048List: music.equipment.slimdevices.rippingJJZolx Wrote: > AIFF is not Apple Lossless. AIFF is uncompressed, very similar to WAV. > Some googling tells me that iTunes may support id3 tagging of AIFF, so > that's one small difference. > I know this. There is some question in audio circles about whether Apple Lossless is truly lossless. I want format that Slimserver supports and that guarantees that the orginal CD integrity is retained. Anyway, I believe I'm now aware of all the info and possibilities. Ps The only reason for the explanation in the last post is to point out the fact that there may be multiple factors in the choice of an audio format and what appear to be straightforward solutions to one person may present unexpected problems in other scenerios. -- gdg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gdg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 Thread at a glance:
Previous Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: WAV vs FLAC vs AIFFgdg Wrote: > This has been suggested to me on another forum but no one has been able > to come up with software that can extract the data and tag AIFF. This > is probably what I need to do. I havn't tried it but I doubt the file > name info remains intact after being imported into iTunes. In future I > will probable use EAC to rip to wav and transcode on the fly into AIFF, > so that may be one small difference. > > Ps Here's the reason I went the WAV route to begin with (from a > previous post): AIFF is not Apple Lossless. AIFF is uncompressed, very similar to WAV. Some googling tells me that iTunes may support id3 tagging of AIFF, so that's one small difference. I think I've read your logic for using WAV instead of FLAC. Whatever. Not my problem. Keep in mind that for use on a battery powered iPod, uncompressed audio (AIFF) will burn battery power faster than files using lossless compression (ALAC) which will burn battery power faster than files using lossy compression (AAC or MP3). If dBpowerAMP can't transcode and do the filename to tag conversion at the same time, then you're left with the other choice. Get a good tagging program and tag the files after you've transcoded them. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 Next Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: WAV vs FLAC vs AIFFgdg Wrote: > There is some question in audio circles about whether Apple Lossless is > truly lossless. There is? It should be trivial to prove either way... -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 Previous Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: WAV vs FLAC vs AIFFgdg Wrote: > This has been suggested to me on another forum but no one has been able > to come up with software that can extract the data and tag AIFF. This > is probably what I need to do. I havn't tried it but I doubt the file > name info remains intact after being imported into iTunes. In future I > will probable use EAC to rip to wav and transcode on the fly into AIFF, > so that may be one small difference. > > Ps Here's the reason I went the WAV route to begin with (from a > previous post): AIFF is not Apple Lossless. AIFF is uncompressed, very similar to WAV. Some googling tells me that iTunes may support id3 tagging of AIFF, so that's one small difference. I think I've read your logic for using WAV instead of FLAC. Whatever. Not my problem. Keep in mind that for use on a battery powered iPod, uncompressed audio (AIFF) will burn battery power faster than files using lossless compression (ALAC) which will burn battery power faster than files using lossy compression (AAC or MP3). If dBpowerAMP can't transcode and do the filename to tag conversion at the same time, then you're left with the other choice. Get a good tagging program and tag the files after you've transcoded them. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 Next Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: WAV vs FLAC vs AIFFgdg Wrote: > There is some question in audio circles about whether Apple Lossless is > truly lossless. There is? It should be trivial to prove either way... -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25333 Loading Comments...
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