question about lossless musci

Post by **Peke** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:29 pm

I agree with Al_G. Here few studios do vinyl cleaning very cheap, even they do transfer to WAVE (96kHz/32Bit) using professional equipment and hardware correction filters for scratches. All that depends how much you like your vinyls. I paid for several mine that are very rare and old.

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:54 pm

And as I said better use 'preset standard' instead of 'self-tuned' settings with 192kbits VBR. It will give you a similar bitrate but better quality since it's higly developed and tested.

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:35 pm

Yes FLAC is great for sound quality, but to distinguish it you need HI-FI equipment and speakers.

The main disadvantage of FLAC is the size, and if it's of concern, encode to MP3 with preset "Insane" (320 Kbps), so the filesize will be almost 3x smaller.

By the way, mbnc, why don't you take a picture and put it on this thread:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=92844
It's interesting to see what sound systems are used by MM users.

Hooah · Post by **Hooah** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:05 pm

Since storage is so cheap, it is usually worth encoding in FLAC, then transcoding to MP3 or whatever the codec of the year is. That way, you only have to rip you library once (hopefully).

guest · Post by **guest** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:22 pm

I want to record all my LP albums to digital format. I want to store them in FLAC on an external hard drive. I have a USB turntable hooked up to my Dell PC. Do I need a specific sound card in the PC to do a reasonable job of converting analog to digital? Which program should I use to record to the PC (Audacity?). If the files are recorded as wav, how do I convert them to FLAC (what program converts wav to flac)? I would ultimately like to put the entire LP collection onto 160 GB (or 320 GB) ipod, so I will then need to convert from FLAC to apple lossless or mp4. Can anyone tell me exactly what free (hopefully) software I need to do all this? Thanks.

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:33 pm

guest wrote:I want to record all my LP albums to digital format. I want to store them in FLAC on an external hard drive. I have a USB turntable hooked up to my Dell PC. Do I need a specific sound card in the PC to do a reasonable job of converting analog to digital? Which program should I use to record to the PC (Audacity?). If the files are recorded as wav, how do I convert them to FLAC (what program converts wav to flac)? I would ultimately like to put the entire LP collection onto 160 GB (or 320 GB) ipod, so I will then need to convert from FLAC to apple lossless or mp4. Can anyone tell me exactly what free (hopefully) software I need to do all this? Thanks.

Audacity works very well for recording. I would suggest you use Audacity as it works, its free, and its relatively easy to use. Once you have the wav files, you can use the free version of MM to convert wav to flac and to tag them. Unfortunately, MM can't convert to apple lossless, and it can convert to mp4 but only with a decoder that you have to pay for.

guest · Post by **guest** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:39 pm

Does mm convert wav to flac, or just the other way around (flac to wav). The info page suggests it is the latter. Has anyone used mm to convert to flac?

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:51 pm

guest wrote:Does mm convert wav to flac, or just the other way around (flac to wav). The info page suggests it is the latter. Has anyone used mm to convert to flac?

Yes, it can do this. I have done it.

guest · Post by **guest** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:09 pm

I found a posting that describes how to change flac to play in itunes (but on a mac). Check out http://earpick.wordpress.com/2007/06/11 ... es-on-mac/

Someone smart on this site can probably figure out how to do this on a pc?!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:36 pm

guest wrote:I want to record all my LP albums to digital format. I want to store them in FLAC on an external hard drive. I have a USB turntable hooked up to my Dell PC. Do I need a specific sound card in the PC to do a reasonable job of converting analog to digital? Which program should I use to record to the PC (Audacity?). If the files are recorded as wav, how do I convert them to FLAC (what program converts wav to flac)? I would ultimately like to put the entire LP collection onto 160 GB (or 320 GB) ipod, so I will then need to convert from FLAC to apple lossless or mp4. Can anyone tell me exactly what free (hopefully) software I need to do all this? Thanks.

my dell came with the santa cruz turtle beach card and it does great.

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