All my stuff is ripped lossless in i tunes-was hoping i could convert it/back it up on an external drive etc.
Had a look at dbpoweramp-cant seem to find out what it costs.
Had J river for a while found it a terrible faff and a bit flaky!
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All my stuff is ripped lossless in i tunes-was hoping i could convert it/back it up on an external drive etc.
Had a look at dbpoweramp-cant seem to find out what it costs.
Had J river for a while found it a terrible faff and a bit flaky!
Bundled with Perfect TUNES https://secure.dbpoweramp.com/store_purchase.aspx?p=11
By itself for a single PC https://secure.dbpoweramp.com/store_purchase.aspx?p=9
Geoff
Last edited by Sherwood; 31-10-2017 at 16:56.
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
Tony,
got your PM, replied fella.
If your Tunes are in AAC then your files have been compressed and as the guys have said you cant get back whats been discarded if you ripped them compressed.
It'll be a ball-ache re-ripping but will be more than worth it, I spent months but once its done its done for life.
Worth it if you want to know your getting the best sound possible - no point compromising!
DBPoweramp is my go-to ripping software, though Jriver does a good job too.
Not so much as a player (It can be flaky as you say) but as a swiss army knife for tagging, ripping and all that good stuff its pretty great.
Happy to help out mate, lemme know and we can arrange summit.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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Thanks Gary,
PM replied to.
Tony.
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Foobar, rip to FLAC highest (data) compression setting. Job's a good'un.
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FLAC processing is asymetrical, it takes more processing to encode it with higher compression but they all take the same overhead to decode. Futility is in the eye of the beholder I guess imo the marginal extra time it takes is worth the space over a large collection.
https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__asymmetry
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