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  1. Are you saying you can play lossless on an iPod?


  3. But that would still require a lot more space, wouldn't it? How many times more space do lossless files require anyway?


  4. It does depend but on average you are looking at 500-700mb per gig. Usually 40-50mb per individual song.


  5. I don't see lossless as a pointless and bloated thing. Sure, they're huge, but you want top quality, this is the second best route bar an audio CD.

    If you're ripping the Achtung Baby CD to FLAC 5 - there are different levels from 0 to 8, Zoo Station comes out at 27.7MB. That same file, converted to LAME3.97 through Foobar2000 in MP3 192Kbps comes out at 6.64MB. It's four minutes, 36 seconds, so that means just over 10.5MB per minute

    It all depends on what format you want to use - Shorten (.shn), Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac), Wave Audio (.wav) or Apple Lossless (.alac). I'd prefer .wav if you have the disc space and want to maintain the CD > data ratio of 1411Kbps, or FLAC if you don't want to have massive file sizes (of 50MB+).

    If you want decent-sounding MP3s (is there such a thing), 192Kbps or 256Kbps is the sweet spot - 320Kbps is inaudible to a lot of people, whereas the difference from 128Kbps to 192Kbps is quite a bit. Rather than having 64Kbps per channel on headphones or speakers with 128Kbps, you can gain an extra 32Kbps on each side - hence 192 divided by 2, which gives you an extra 64Kbps. With the crap sound on today's devices (like iPod, mobile phone etc), you've gotta have good enough sound, because the pissy sound chips won't give it to you, and neither will iTunes.

    http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison


  6. Right, so when you're importing a flac you've gotta be sure to switch your settings to apple lossless encorder. Anything else?
  7. Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

    Right, so when you're importing a flac you've gotta be sure to switch your settings to apple lossless encorder. Anything else?


    FLAC has to be converted to wav first then itunes will encode it to apple lossless
  9. Ignorant question coming...

    How do you convert FLAC to WAV?


  12. Doesn't converting the FLAC files to wav and then to AL result in a large quality loss? Would it still be way better than MP3 or what is the point?