you can actually hear the difference between a good MP3 and a non lossy
format?
Or you just want to have the data in the best quality for archival purposes?

if that is so, you are losing your time because that if you had better
speakers the sound would be better than you now have.

mp3 with a good sound system will be better than non compressed with a poor
or mediocre sound system...


"Stephan Rose" <nospam@spammer.com> wrote in message
news:1oadnXKNHLK5DJzaRVnygQA@giganews.com...[color=blue]
> ...that it can't even handle my Music collection. I'll explain.
>
> First off, I don't like using lossy compression. So, MP3 is out of the
> picture.
>
> Secondly, I don't like proprietary operating-system dependent file
> formats for my data. So Windows Media format is out of the question.
>
> Luckily there is an easy solution and it's called flac. Not restricted to
> Windows and it's a lossless format. Perfect.
>
> Now, can Windows Media Player handle flac? Of course not. There are some
> 3rd party plugins supposedly that are supposed to add the capability but
> I've yet to find one that actually WORKS!
>
> Now why am I even bothering with Windows Media Player? I have a sansa
> E260 MP3 player (Got it for my birthday last month) that uses MTP as a
> protocol and I'm looking for something useful to sync with it. More on
> that later.
>
> So luckily Ubuntu has a lovely utility to convert all my files, including
> all my tags, to MP3 files. Works flawlessly. Two hours later, I have a
> complete copy of my library in MP3 format. Hopefully Windows Media player
> will be able to handle THAT!
>
> Well...erm...no, it can't. I mean it can play back the files, but it
> can't deal with my tags. My entire collection is in Japanese and so are
> most of the tags. They just come out as garbage under windows media
> player. My MP3 player supports the tags fine though so there is nothing
> wrong with the tags.
>
> So why am I bothering converting my files to MP3 so that I can load them
> in WMP and sync to my device? Well quite frankly, at this moment, Windows
> does have the better support for MTP. It's Microsoft's own protocol after
> all and support under the current Beta version of Ubuntu is somewhat
> flaky. I've submitted bug reports but that obviously does me little good
> now. Though hopefully they'll be fixed by release time.
>
> So on one hand, I have an OS that can handle MTP without a problem but
> can't do **** with my music. And on the other hand I have I have an OS
> that can handle my music without a problem, but has problems with the
> device.
>
> Lovely!
>
> So on that note, if anyone has any bright ideas, I'm all ears. I
> currently don't care if the solution is Linux or Windows...I just care
> for a solution.
>
> I've though of just putting the device into Mass Storage mode and
> manually copying the mp3's onto the device...but too many file names
> conflict with what FAT32 allows and no, I'm not manually renaming them
> all. There too I was hoping WMP would just automatically convert the file
> names to something FAT32 can handle (though I have no clue if it actually
> does / doesn't as I have yet to get that far).
>
> I suppose I may just need to look for a utility that'll auto-rename all
> the files to something FAT32 compatible and manually move them to the
> device via mass storage mode...that's currently kind of my last resort
> though.
>
> --
> Stephan
> 2003 Yamaha R6
>
> ????????????????
> ??????????????[/color]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:21:59 +0300, Tiberius wrote:
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> What you say makes sense.. if disk space is no problem then the better
> quality the better!
>
> what lossless format do you use? and why did you select a perticular
> one?
>
> Flac?[/color]

Yep Flac is it.

Reasons are pretty simple:

- It's lossless.

- It has reasonable compression. It compresses to about 7.5 megs per
minute of audio. Not breathtaking but it beats using uncompressed wave
files.

- It's not proprietary. I don't like storing things in proprietary file
formats that bind me to a single vendor.

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

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