Absolutely, in my opinion you should re-rip your music in either .wav or .aiff formats. The foundation of your digital library should be uncompressed, or at least flac, for the best sound quality. Once you have them ripped to uncompressed then you can play with your files and compress them for portable playback, for example. And make sure you have files backed up properly. Db poweramp or XLD are terrific programs for ripping.
CD ripping
Most of my 600 CDs were ripped thorough iTunes as m4a format.
Is it worth re doing this to wav ?
my 2 Channel system is oppo 105 to rega brio r and epos 11 speakers.
If worthwhile any advise on how I should do it myself or reco on services to outsource to?
Appreciate any guidance.
steve
Is it worth re doing this to wav ?
my 2 Channel system is oppo 105 to rega brio r and epos 11 speakers.
If worthwhile any advise on how I should do it myself or reco on services to outsource to?
Appreciate any guidance.
steve
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I agree with andrei nz. Personally, when I compared WAV vs ALAC ripped files, I could hear no difference. Not sure about the correctness of cleeds comments w/respect to M4a from ALAC. ALAC compresses but is claimed to be lossless, as in "Apple LOSSLESS Audio Codec". Regardless of any theoretical advantage for one format vs the other, let your ears be the judge. Re-ripping would be a lot of work not to mention losing meta data with WAV. |
ghosthouse Not sure about the correctness of cleeds comments w/respect to M4a from ALACHuh? I never mentioned ALAC. You must be confused. |
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