[peel] flac

[Roger Carruthers]

For a list of iPod compatible formats see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1334
As others have pointed out, the advantage of using .flac is that it¹s
lossless and cross-platform, which means that you can convert it to whatever
form suits you, knowing that you¹ve at least started with something that
hasn¹t Œlost¹ anything.
It¹s a matter for debate as to whether this is a worthwhile exercise for
material that started out on compact cassette, but if you wish to stay
lossless and play it on an iPod, you can convert the files to Apple
Lossless, though you may have to decompress them first, depending on what
you use to do the conversion.
Lossless formats typically run at about half the file size of uncompressed
audio ( .aiff, wav etc.) which run to approx 10 Mb per minute of stereo, so
Flacs are in the region of 5 Mb per stereo min.
 ŒLossy¹ formats like .mp3 or .ogg may give you as much as a tenth of the
size, or even less, but the smaller you go, the worse they sound. For me 192
kbs is about the bottom of the acceptable range ­  320 would be my
preference, but for any kind of perceptual coding, you have to let your own
ears be the judge.
 So basically, convert them to whatever format works for you. As a Mac user,
I use a thing called Max (see http://sbooth.org/Max/), though I¹m sure there
are zillions of similar utilities for Windoze,
HTH
Roger


On 18/07/2008 20:29, "Andrew Fox" <andrewianfox33@...> wrote:

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>> > andrew , cheers
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