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RE: Formats be Damned

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You are right hard drive real estate is cheap, no excuses for MP3 :)

Lossless formats are as good as uncompressed .WAV because it get decoded to the same WAV file during playback. Bit for bit your DAC will see the same thing.

The best lossless format is one that will be supported by your playback software and/or device. FLAC is a common one that many people including myself use. In addition to my main system, I have an IAudio portable device that plays FLAC. Now if I had an IPod then FLAC would not be a good solution for me. Perhaps then I would go with AIFF...

The disadvantage of .WAV is it does not store tag info wheres as something like FLAC does.

Once your music is in one lossless format and in the future you wanted to convert it into another lossless format then that is pretty easy. You just convert back to WAV and then convert that to the new format. It would be easy to automate this and maintian the tags ie you don't have to re-rip your entire collection.


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