Hi- Res download newbie

Oh man. I cannot BELIEVE these PS audio clowns.

It's bad enough that they will smoke and mirror their way through the obvious fact that digital volume control distorts sound quality, but in addition, they will not bother with flac?

Trust me, my dear newbie, you do not want to drift away from flac. There are very good reasons why your sources use flac. It is a royal pain in the ass to maintain multiple copies of the same music, and it eats hard drive space (e.g. wav, iirc).

If your player will not play flac, get a better player. Your music collection is a lifetime endeavor, and one of the best things about flac is precisely that you do it once and never need to touch it again.

Trader's Little Helper is a perfectly good flac converter but you can get THE flac converter itself. Just google flac. It's free and easy to install.

IMG works fine for burning. I don't know if it's the best though.

Thank you all for responding. My main concern is for the sound quality of the entire process. I'm quite satisfied with the results so far but haven't compared them to any other programs. Granted, Traders little helper and IMG burn are free downloads, I would be willing to pay for a program that would surpass them in overall sound quality. Thank You.
Dan

You're welcome.

I have read a lot about different Apple software resulting in changes in sound quality but none about windows software.

I think you can be confident that using the flac converter will not affect sound quality and pretty sure that IMG will not either. To get some opinions you could start a thread asking about which software is the best for burning music on a windows based computer.

went through this a while back. even posted a "how to" on the PSA forums after i got it sorted out. did end up with a dozen or so unreadable dvd's before getting it right. the biggest problem i ran into was the various glitches in windows vista regarding UDF formatting.

i found Nero to be the best all around software to get the job done. not because it did anything better then other programs did, rather it's an all in one solution and streamlined the process for me.

here's a link.

http://www.psaudio.com/ps/forum/viewthread/404/

side note: i'd switch to a computer based system instead of burning dvd disc's. you can keep things in FLAC or WAVE and the convenience factor is awesome!

cheers
Lev