Ripping music from CD: some advice needed
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Ripping music from CD: some advice needed
Hi,
I am a fan of tape op even though I am only a "dabbler" with home recording. It's always a good read.
My question revolves around the fact that I need to make some room by getting rid of some of my seemingly infinite CD collection. The kind of CDs that I'm not going to look at the liners in a hurry: horrible old jewel cases with grey plastic backs not the Bootleg Series with lavish booklet if you get my drift.
So I want to rip them to my iTunes. Can anyone tell the difference between 320kbps mp3/AAC and WAV? I work with iTunes and pods and pads so FLAC isn't an option. I can certainly tell the difference between 128 and WAV on my home system and I like to kid myself I can tell the difference between 320 and 1411! But maybe that's psychological!
What would you do? Rip to 320 and save hard drive / ipod space or go for the full 1411 on everything?
Thanks,
Owen
I am a fan of tape op even though I am only a "dabbler" with home recording. It's always a good read.
My question revolves around the fact that I need to make some room by getting rid of some of my seemingly infinite CD collection. The kind of CDs that I'm not going to look at the liners in a hurry: horrible old jewel cases with grey plastic backs not the Bootleg Series with lavish booklet if you get my drift.
So I want to rip them to my iTunes. Can anyone tell the difference between 320kbps mp3/AAC and WAV? I work with iTunes and pods and pads so FLAC isn't an option. I can certainly tell the difference between 128 and WAV on my home system and I like to kid myself I can tell the difference between 320 and 1411! But maybe that's psychological!
What would you do? Rip to 320 and save hard drive / ipod space or go for the full 1411 on everything?
Thanks,
Owen
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I would just pull them all in as waves. Hard drives aren't that expensive these days. You can get a terabyte for around $100.
I'm almost sure that itunes now supports flac and that they can play on ipod/pad as well.
You could also batch convert your wave files to Flac down the road should you choose to go that route. 320 kbps isn't so bad, but you would will still be experiencing data compression and a high frequency cut of 18Kish.
I'm almost sure that itunes now supports flac and that they can play on ipod/pad as well.
You could also batch convert your wave files to Flac down the road should you choose to go that route. 320 kbps isn't so bad, but you would will still be experiencing data compression and a high frequency cut of 18Kish.
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When did iTunes start supprting FLAC?Waltz Mastering wrote:I would just pull them all in as waves. Hard drives aren't that expensive these days. You can get a terabyte for around $100.
I'm almost sure that itunes now supports flac and that they can play on ipod/pad as well.You could also batch convert your wave files to Flac down the road should you choose to go that route. 320 kbps isn't so bad, but you would will still be experiencing data compression and a high frequency cut of 18Kish.
To the OP, if you are using a Mac, just convert to Apple Lossless. It'll play on your pods/pads.
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Well, officially it doesn't, but it can be done easily. You have to trick itunes into thinking it's an quicktime movie file.Hallogallo wrote:When did iTunes start supprting FLAC?
http://www.macworld.com/article/142096/ ... tunes.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ok3DtDrNU
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Cyan421 wrote:I swear apple lossless used to make the files bigger than wave....
Has that been fixed or am I just crazy....
A little from column 'A', a little from column 'B'.
Seriously I've never noticed, or looked at, that before. Even if it was bigger, I would still use AL as you cannot assign cover pics to wavs.
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I remember trying that at one time and couldn't get it to work, so I went with Apple Lossless.Waltz Mastering wrote:Well, officially it doesn't, but it can be done easily. You have to trick itunes into thinking it's an quicktime movie file.Hallogallo wrote:When did iTunes start supprting FLAC?
http://www.macworld.com/article/142096/ ... tunes.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ok3DtDrNU
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