My birthday present has arrived; an iPod Nano. I've a whole load of Music ripped from CDs over the years in various formats. What I'd like to do is rip them to a lossless codec now that disk space is so cheap. If I stuck to Windows, the choice would be easy; simply use iTunes, rip to ALAC, and sync with my iPod. What would the denizens of ALUG recommend to use with Linux? Ideally, I'd like a tool that would treat my lossless source library (FLAC?) as a master, and then re-encode that more can fit on to my iPod. Lets face it, I'm no audiophile, and probably can't tell the difference between a native CD and whatever the default codec/bitrate is for WIndows Media Player. Thoughts welcome, Greg [With apologies if this came up recently. I'm sure I've seen stuff on this before, but couldn't see anything in the archives]
On Jan 16, 2008 10:34 PM, Greg Thomas <Greg@thethomashome.co.uk> wrote:
My birthday present has arrived; an iPod Nano. [snip] Lets face it, I'm no audiophile, and probably can't tell the difference between a native CD and whatever the default codec/bitrate is for WIndows Media Player.
Research has shown the headphones can make a bigger difference than fiddling with the bitrate. If your master archive is FLAC, converting to the universally playable MP3 format should suit your needs. Have fun, Tim.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:34:02PM +0000, Greg Thomas wrote:
My birthday present has arrived; an iPod Nano.
I've a whole load of Music ripped from CDs over the years in various formats. What I'd like to do is rip them to a lossless codec now that disk space is so cheap.
If I stuck to Windows, the choice would be easy; simply use iTunes, rip to ALAC, and sync with my iPod.
What would the denizens of ALUG recommend to use with Linux?
Try gtkpod; Katherine's using it with her Nano and it handles re-encoding from other formats just fine. J. -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] Run like hell! [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] [
Try gtkpod; Katherine's using it with her Nano and it handles re-encoding from other formats just fine.
J.
Seconded. I worked on the conversion scripts to allow conversion from FLAC -> M4A on-the-fly. :) My collection is stored in FLAC and I use gtkpod to sync it all the time with my 2nd gen Nano - it works gr8. Peter.
On 16 Jan 2008, at 10:34 pm, Greg Thomas wrote:
What would the denizens of ALUG recommend to use with Linux? Ideally, I'd like a tool that would treat my lossless source library (FLAC?) as a master, and then re-encode that more can fit on to my iPod. Lets face it, I'm no audiophile, and probably can't tell the difference between a native CD and whatever the default codec/bitrate is for WIndows Media Player.
I'm curious - if you're not an audiophile, why do you keep all of your music in FLAC rather than using a smaller compressed format? -- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:55:13AM +0000, David Reynolds wrote:
I'm curious - if you're not an audiophile, why do you keep all of your music in FLAC rather than using a smaller compressed format?
Because disk space is cheap. If I could have ripped all my CD collection to FLAC when I started ripping my CD collection I would have done. Since then I've owned a few devices that have used different formats and converting something lossy to something else lossy really does sound crap, and I have had to rip some things more than once which is a real pain, at least if I had FLAC masters for everything I could then re-encode them. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
On 17 Jan 10:45, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:55:13AM +0000, David Reynolds wrote:
I'm curious - if you're not an audiophile, why do you keep all of your music in FLAC rather than using a smaller compressed format?
Because disk space is cheap. If I could have ripped all my CD collection to FLAC when I started ripping my CD collection I would have done.
Since then I've owned a few devices that have used different formats and converting something lossy to something else lossy really does sound crap, and I have had to rip some things more than once which is a real pain, at least if I had FLAC masters for everything I could then re-encode them.
And, at least FLAC is compressed (non-lossy), so it shouldn't take really extortionate amounts of diskspace... (I must remember to re-rip all of my cds one day) -- Brett Parker
On 17 Jan 2008, at 10:45 am, Adam Bower wrote:
Because disk space is cheap. If I could have ripped all my CD collection to FLAC when I started ripping my CD collection I would have done.
Since then I've owned a few devices that have used different formats and converting something lossy to something else lossy really does sound crap, and I have had to rip some things more than once which is a real pain, at least if I had FLAC masters for everything I could then re-encode them.
But obviously you could tell the difference, whereas Greg said he couldn't, that was more my point. -- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:07:39AM +0000, David Reynolds wrote:
But obviously you could tell the difference, whereas Greg said he couldn't, that was more my point.
Not so sure about that, I probably can't tell the difference between high bitrate mp3 and FLAC but I can tell the difference between an mp3 encoded from FLAC over an mp3 encoded from an ogg. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
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