80's vinyls
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ITunes don't sell flac format which is what you want if you are serious about your music mp3 is OK for for phones etc
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
pkfox wrote:
ITunes don't sell flac format which is what you want if you are serious about your music
Agreed that .flac is superior to .mp3, but isn't creating .flac from vinyl like transferring your VHS tapes to Blu-ray, rather than getting a DVD source? I would think you'd be better off getting the highest-quality MP3s you can find on iTunes (or whatever format it is they use). (Of course I'm basing this on my own experience ripping vinyls from a very average turntable with a very average sound card...YMMV)
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That was a good one. However, I shouldn't have looked at your profile. Now I have a serious earworm from Gimme Dat Ding :-D
:badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: Now I have to go watch it again. :thumbsup:
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pkfox wrote:
ITunes don't sell flac format which is what you want if you are serious about your music
Agreed that .flac is superior to .mp3, but isn't creating .flac from vinyl like transferring your VHS tapes to Blu-ray, rather than getting a DVD source? I would think you'd be better off getting the highest-quality MP3s you can find on iTunes (or whatever format it is they use). (Of course I'm basing this on my own experience ripping vinyls from a very average turntable with a very average sound card...YMMV)
I've only ripped CD's to flac which is a two stage process a wav file is created first then the flac encoder compresses the wav to create the flac, it depends on what you are going to play your music on as to how much effort you put in, I have a high end hi-fi which includes a networked digital player with analogue and digital outputs to play through my hi-fi, mp3 files sound awful when played on this setup but flac sound ( after some work ) as good as a very good CD player, the plus side of having them digitised are are multifold - playlists,browse and search etc... It took me a couple of years to get it perfect but it was well worth the effort and when I buy a CD I immediately rip it to the collection.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I've only ripped CD's to flac which is a two stage process a wav file is created first then the flac encoder compresses the wav to create the flac, it depends on what you are going to play your music on as to how much effort you put in, I have a high end hi-fi which includes a networked digital player with analogue and digital outputs to play through my hi-fi, mp3 files sound awful when played on this setup but flac sound ( after some work ) as good as a very good CD player, the plus side of having them digitised are are multifold - playlists,browse and search etc... It took me a couple of years to get it perfect but it was well worth the effort and when I buy a CD I immediately rip it to the collection.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
I have the same setup, except I use Apple Lossless (ALAC). You can set iTunes to rip to this by default, so it's as easy as popping in a CD and importing. ALAC sounds just as good as FLAC but works better with iTunes/iPod (and my tuner supports it).
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I have the same setup, except I use Apple Lossless (ALAC). You can set iTunes to rip to this by default, so it's as easy as popping in a CD and importing. ALAC sounds just as good as FLAC but works better with iTunes/iPod (and my tuner supports it).
Ah ! I didn't know you could configure iTunes to do that as I always use EAC on windows or grip on Linux to rip ( not a fan.of Apple apart from their phones ) can you download in ALAC format ? As that would be really useful.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ah ! I didn't know you could configure iTunes to do that as I always use EAC on windows or grip on Linux to rip ( not a fan.of Apple apart from their phones ) can you download in ALAC format ? As that would be really useful.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
No I don't think you can buy ALAC versions from the iTunes store, but you can rip your CDs straight to ALAC.
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No I don't think you can buy ALAC versions from the iTunes store, but you can rip your CDs straight to ALAC.
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OK thanks - what digital player have you got ? I've got a Slimdevices Transporter which are sadly discontinued but still very good despite being taken over by Logitech
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
I have a Marantz M-CR610. It sounds great, and it supports AirPlay so I can play my iTunes library on it wirelessly from my computer, and it also supports internet radio, Pandora, etc. as well as playing from a media server. Plus, it has a nice CD player so I can pop in a CD and go old-school when I want to :cool:
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I have a Marantz M-CR610. It sounds great, and it supports AirPlay so I can play my iTunes library on it wirelessly from my computer, and it also supports internet radio, Pandora, etc. as well as playing from a media server. Plus, it has a nice CD player so I can pop in a CD and go old-school when I want to :cool:
