sbangs
Toss your CDs
CDs are so 20th century. It's time to liberate your music from those scratch-prone, shelf-hogging, losable platters and turn it into pristine, eminently practical digital files. When you're done, you'll be able to transcode your songs into new formats as needed or even burn them back to CDs, with no loss of fidelity.
Apple iTunes users can rip CDs into the Apple Lossless format.
The secret is lossless compression. Typically, songs ripped from CDs end up as AAC, MP3, or WMA files, all of which are lossy--at least some song data has been stripped in order to make the files smaller. By ripping to a lossless format instead, the files still get compressed, but no sound quality is lost along the way. They're bit-for-bit duplicates of the originals that occupy about half the disk space.
As a result, you can pack your hard drive with CD-quality digital files that can be played, transcoded, or burned, all while keeping your source files intact. It's like having CDs without the CDs.
OK, but which lossless format should you choose? One option is to simply rip the uncompressed WAV files straight from your CDs, but they're huge--upward of 50MB per song--and they can't be tagged with song, artist, album, and other desirable information. Another option is FLAC, a popular open-source codec, but most users will probably be better off with either Apple Lossless or WMA Lossless.
Thanks To C-net for that article
hope this helps!
CDs are so 20th century. It's time to liberate your music from those scratch-prone, shelf-hogging, losable platters and turn it into pristine, eminently practical digital files. When you're done, you'll be able to transcode your songs into new formats as needed or even burn them back to CDs, with no loss of fidelity.
Apple iTunes users can rip CDs into the Apple Lossless format.
The secret is lossless compression. Typically, songs ripped from CDs end up as AAC, MP3, or WMA files, all of which are lossy--at least some song data has been stripped in order to make the files smaller. By ripping to a lossless format instead, the files still get compressed, but no sound quality is lost along the way. They're bit-for-bit duplicates of the originals that occupy about half the disk space.
As a result, you can pack your hard drive with CD-quality digital files that can be played, transcoded, or burned, all while keeping your source files intact. It's like having CDs without the CDs.
OK, but which lossless format should you choose? One option is to simply rip the uncompressed WAV files straight from your CDs, but they're huge--upward of 50MB per song--and they can't be tagged with song, artist, album, and other desirable information. Another option is FLAC, a popular open-source codec, but most users will probably be better off with either Apple Lossless or WMA Lossless.
Thanks To C-net for that article
hope this helps!
Inviato Fri 27 Oct 06 @ 12:57 pm
bmac16
What's your opinion on Monkey's Audio (APE)?.
Inviato Fri 27 Oct 06 @ 7:21 pm
sbangs
it looks good
havent tired it personaly
havent tired it personaly
Inviato Fri 27 Oct 06 @ 7:30 pm
bmac16
Can we use Ape files with VDJ?.
Inviato Fri 27 Oct 06 @ 11:41 pm
sbangs
if you imported a codec should work
Inviato Fri 27 Oct 06 @ 11:45 pm