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How do you incode your digital media?

Looking at my options here. Has anyone experienced any problems with the "lossless" forms of media storage? Any differences in fidelity that only us audiophiles may be bothered by? I am looking to incode everything in Apple Lossless, as it seems to be the most recognized and should integrate with a Squeezebox 3 nicely.

Let me know if you have any thoughts!

Ben
bearotti
ketchup
702 posts
 
http://learn.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?0&1&2&3&4&

click on the link and search for "lossless"
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Ben - when played through the same DAC I have not been able to distinguish between Apple Lossless, WAV, and my transport playing the original CD. Knowing this I chose to rip my CD's in lossless rather than WAV and fit almost twice the number of CD's into the same amount of space. YMMV, but it's easy enough for you to test out yourself if you already have the gear to play the files. Or, if not, you may want to try comparing lossless to WAV files which are uncompressed, or EAD files if you are using that software. My bet is you won't be able to hear any differences.

Marco
pardales
652 posts
 
I use Apple Lossless and think it works great. Like Jax2, as good as a dedicated CD transport.
drubin
3,282 posts
 
If you are planning to use the Squeezebox wirelessly, lossless may present some problems. At least that has been my experience. I use Apple Lossless and WiFi to the SB appears to require too much bandwidth. Despite buffering, I get annoying interruptions. Wired works flawlessly. However, I'm just guessing that I'd have better performance with lossy compression; I haven't tried it.
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