Oh look, I found a mirrored version of the what.cd guideyeah, that's the one. go nuts.
http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/435208-Installing-configuring-and-ripping-with-Exact-Audio-Copy-%28EAC%29
Also found these two guides for converting from flacfoobar is 100% free, and an awesome program for playing flacs. would highly recommend it over other alternatives such as winamp.
One using foobar2000 (free I think)MoreShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/xRliNYf.png)
One using dbpoweramp (cost money I think)MoreShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/FWxnQhw.png)
guide would be cool. i'd love an invite but i try to buy my music now (crazy, right? i get looks when i buy CDs at best buy :()
ah **** thanks miller!
god, i haven't listened to the hospital podcast in so long. thanks for that, it takes me back. i will have to revisit it soon :)
i think the last one i heard was S.P.Y ( maybe this one? ) but after that i kind of forgot about it.. i haven't heard any hospital in a long time either if i'm honest. i hope it hasn't changed too much as a label, and i hope i can enjoy the more recent podcasts that i've missed! :thumb:god, i haven't listened to the hospital podcast in so long. thanks for that, it takes me back. i will have to revisit it soon :)
duuuuude, these past few weeks have been AMAZING. Etherwood bro, Etherwood... I just want to sit in my car and let the bass rattle me to sleep.
personally, I follow a few tech ones (Ars, Anandtech, TWiCH, and What the Tech) some uber-popular ones (Planet Money, Freakonomics, Radiolab, 99% invisible), and then the Hospital Podcast.
I probably listen to 20h+ of podcasts a week o.o
If you are going to want to use them on idevices, don't bother with flac. Go with alac (it's every bit as good) instead as alac is natively supported unlike flac. While there are ways to get flac on idevices, it's a lot more effort and involves some extra steps since you can't sync the normal way with unsupported file type. alac files are huge, so better get used to not loading as much music for on the go.
If you are going to want to use them on idevices, don't bother with flac. Go with alac (it's every bit as good) instead as alac is natively supported unlike flac. While there are ways to get flac on idevices, it's a lot more effort and involves some extra steps since you can't sync the normal way with unsupported file type. alac files are huge, so better get used to not loading as much music for on the go.
I only put V0 or 320 mp3s on my phone since lossless files are much too big for me to be able to have my entire collection with me. That and I can't tell the difference between FLAC and V0 MP3 with my current setup :-[
If you are going to want to use them on idevices, don't bother with flac. Go with alac (it's every bit as good) instead as alac is natively supported unlike flac. While there are ways to get flac on idevices, it's a lot more effort and involves some extra steps since you can't sync the normal way with unsupported file type. alac files are huge, so better get used to not loading as much music for on the go.
I only put V0 or 320 mp3s on my phone since lossless files are much too big for me to be able to have my entire collection with me. That and I can't tell the difference between FLAC and V0 MP3 with my current setup :-[
The difference between flac and a 320kbps mp3 aren't that much. You'll probably need a good dac, amp and headphone to notice the difference. Considering you are on mobile is pointless to have flac :D
If you are going to want to use them on idevices, don't bother with flac. Go with alac (it's every bit as good) instead as alac is natively supported unlike flac. While there are ways to get flac on idevices, it's a lot more effort and involves some extra steps since you can't sync the normal way with unsupported file type. alac files are huge, so better get used to not loading as much music for on the go.
I only put V0 or 320 mp3s on my phone since lossless files are much too big for me to be able to have my entire collection with me. That and I can't tell the difference between FLAC and V0 MP3 with my current setup :-[
The difference between flac and a 320kbps mp3 aren't that much. You'll probably need a good dac, amp and headphone to notice the difference. Considering you are on mobile is pointless to have flac :D
The difference isn't there if you "DON'T" look for it...
If you're LOOKING for it, you're no longer listening to the music, you're listening to the equipment..
IT IS NOT WRONG... to listen to equipment, but when people say no-difference.. what they mean is it doesn't hurt the music enough to cause a disturbance.
vinyl on a good system > CD on a good system > any lossless on a decent system > any lossy on a decent system > anything on earplugs
vinyl on a good system > any lossless on a good system > any lossless on a decent system > any lossy on a decent system > anything on earplugs
the charm of vinyl is that it is VERY lossy.
the charm of vinyl is that it is VERY lossy.
Absolutely, utterly, 100% wrong.
Sound waves themselves, all musical instruments with the exception of synthesizers, including the human voice, loudspeakers, compression waves in air, and all components of the human ear itself are perfect examples of analog devices.
A sound wave is just that, a continuous analog string.
Any sort of digitization breaks up that string into chunks and sends it along.
I will gladly grant you that the digitized chunks may be smaller than a human ear can perceive, but the continuous wiggle of the needle in the groove is directly linked to the continuous wiggle of the sound being recorded.
Mathematical equations are impossible to argue against.
Sensation and emotion are impossible to quantify.
Pure analog and vinyl sound better because they operate in the same mode as ears: analog vibrations in sweeping, sloppy, warm, fuzzy curves.
Regardless of what electrical measuring instruments report, analog sounds better than digital.
As for CD rips, best quality has already been explained, although is there any particular reason why using EAC for FLAC and then another program to V0 is better than just using EAC and straight to V0?
As for CD rips, best quality has already been explained, although is there any particular reason why using EAC for FLAC and then another program to V0 is better than just using EAC and straight to V0?
You get to keep an archive of your flacs in case your cds ever become too damaged to be used.
Mathematical equations are impossible to argue against.
Sensation and emotion are impossible to quantify.
Pure analog and vinyl sound better because they operate in the same mode as ears: analog vibrations in sweeping, sloppy, warm, fuzzy curves.
Regardless of what electrical measuring instruments report, analog sounds better than digital.
fohat... come on bro... are you challenging physics?
I just wondered if there was a quality issue with using EAC for V0.
I just wondered if there was a quality issue with using EAC for V0.
Not at all. It's really just the fact that you spend the time getting a quality rip, to just rip straight to a lossy format. It literally takes a moment to transcode from FLAC to mp3 when you have it all set up.
I just wondered if there was a quality issue with using EAC for V0.
Not at all. It's really just the fact that you spend the time getting a quality rip, to just rip straight to a lossy format. It literally takes a moment to transcode from FLAC to mp3 when you have it all set up.
I do rip to FLAC as well, but most of the time I just rip straight to mp3 since my CDs never go anywhere, so with my current storage setup it's not really worth it to make an archive version. I will fix that once I get around to renewing storage though.
I just wondered if there was a quality issue with using EAC for V0.
Not at all. It's really just the fact that you spend the time getting a quality rip, to just rip straight to a lossy format. It literally takes a moment to transcode from FLAC to mp3 when you have it all set up.
I do rip to FLAC as well, but most of the time I just rip straight to mp3 since my CDs never go anywhere, so with my current storage setup it's not really worth it to make an archive version. I will fix that once I get around to renewing storage though.
CDs are way more reliable than harddrives.. as long as it's the "I bought it kind" and not the ones you cyber-stole..
CDs are way more reliable than harddrives.. as long as it's the "I bought it kind" and not the ones you cyber-stole..
Monkey Audio = Flac (I'm beating a dead horse - mostly sure)
I do have more than 400 audio cds in original quality at here (I do have some hear issues - I can't hear a small freq range so for me it's kinda imperative to record in a good quality - mp3 sucks!)
"The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory states that continuous-time (analog) signals and their corresponding discrete-time (digital) signals are mathematically equivalent representations of any bandwidth-limited signal, provided the sample rate is higher than 2X the bandwidth. "
"Effectively, the ADC output sample values are interpreted as a series of points intersected by the waveform; the DAC output is a smooth curve, not a stair-step at all. Additionally, modern ADC and DAC chips are engineered to reduce below the threshold of audibility, if not completely eliminate, any other sources of noise in this conversion process, resulting in an extremely high correlation between the input and output signals. "
"Analog encoding has many measurable and audible faults, potentially including harmonic distortion, noise and intermodulation distortion. These distortions have invariably measured higher than for digital formats, including CD.
Tracking error is due to the use of analog encoding with a stylus that contacts the medium, manifesting as distortion and possibly also cyclic wow with subsonic noise if the pressing is off center from the spindle hole. Wow, flutter, footsteps and feedback are other errors due to the transport mechanism and transducers used with vinyl. Digital storage has none of these errors. "
"In any of these preceeding three use cases, digital is superior to analog at both mastering and end-user stages, and represents an advance in the total sound production signal path rather than simply storage improvement. "
"The dynamic range of vinyl, when evaluated as the ratio of a peak sinusoidal amplitude to the peak noise density at that sine wave frequency, is somewhere around 80 dB. Under theoretically ideal conditions, this could perhaps improve to 120 dB. The dynamic range of CDs, when evaluated on a frequency-dependent basis and performed with proper dithering and oversampling, is somewhere around 150 dB. Under no legitimate circumstances will the dynamic range of vinyl ever exceed the dynamic range of CD, under any frequency, given the wide performance gap and the physical limitations of vinyl playback."
:D
The fact that a PERSON may "PREFER" Vinyl falls under the "psycho-acoustic" genre.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29 (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29)