AAC for ipods ? anyone ?
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From: J. J. Lodder on 12 Jan 2010 10:13 whisky-dave <whisky-dave(a)final.front.ear> wrote: > "Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote in > message > news:1jc6n3w.9zakscrq1q9pN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid... > > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > >> Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... > >> > > >> > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home > >> > or > >> > car ? What do you think ? > >> > >> The de-facto standard for lossless audio is .flac > > > > What does that mean, exactly? I'll tell you what you mean. > > > > What you really means is this: it's the only free lossless audio file > > format that's had any significant takeup. But the available software > > support is very poor on Macs at least. > > I use audacity for listening to FLAC then I use audacity LAME plugin > to export to MP3 if I need to. > I've noticed that FLAC seems to be more 'standard' form of lossless > than Quicktimes lossless, although a friends band recodring studio seems to > prefer > sending/receiving wav files for audio as they don;t like FLAC (on a PC)for > some reason. Just Windoze blindness, I guess, not invented here syndrome, Jan
From: David Kennedy on 12 Jan 2010 12:43 Elliott Roper wrote: > In article<pPudnUOOtZ-Zg9HWnZ2dnUVZ8kti4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David > Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >> Elliott Roper wrote: > >> Are you going to add .flac into the mix? > > Nah. I see no reason not to believe it really is lossless. Besides > .flac is a royal pain in the bum on OS X. The only tools that play it > directly that I have are of dubious provenance, so all it would prove > is that the tool might be ok or that I'm bullshitting again. > I just wondered... I agree that it's a pita as I've never found anything good that handles it. Amadeus Pro? -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Elliott Roper on 12 Jan 2010 12:59 In article <F82dnattIIU3KdHWnZ2dnUVZ8uadnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Elliott Roper wrote: > > In article<pPudnUOOtZ-Zg9HWnZ2dnUVZ8kti4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David > > Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > > >> Elliott Roper wrote: > > > >> Are you going to add .flac into the mix? > > > > Nah. I see no reason not to believe it really is lossless. Besides > > .flac is a royal pain in the bum on OS X. The only tools that play it > > directly that I have are of dubious provenance, so all it would prove > > is that the tool might be ok or that I'm bullshitting again. > > > > I just wondered... > > I agree that it's a pita as I've never found anything good that handles > it. Amadeus Pro? I like it. But I'm currently using Toolplayer to convert .flac to something sensible. If I were seriously looking at lossless, I'd convert to ALC or AIFF and have my pure sound LSD trip. Being a geriatric with flannel ears, I don't see much point in bursting my download limits with stuff I can't hear any more. So I don't bother with lossless acquisition all that much. If I buy the CD, it is as lossless as I'm going to get, so I don't have any use for .flac HOWEVER! If only there were a decent way of getting 5.1 or 7.1 DTS or one of its uncles or aunts, that would be a different matter. I'd love to get music recorded in full surround, but it is hard to find anyone who sells it, or at least sells proper music recorded that way. I�/think/ my Blu-Ray player will deal with some DTS audio disks, but finding Mac software that produces anything other than hiss has been a fail. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: David Kennedy on 12 Jan 2010 13:15 Elliott Roper wrote: > > HOWEVER! If only there were a decent way of getting 5.1 or 7.1 DTS or > one of its uncles or aunts, that would be a different matter. I'd love > to get music recorded in full surround, but it is hard to find anyone > who sells it, or at least sells proper music recorded that way. > > I /think/ my Blu-Ray player will deal with some DTS audio disks, but > finding Mac software that produces anything other than hiss has been a > fail. > I still have an unplayed copy of Quadraphenia here, never did get around to quad vinyl... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: SM on 12 Jan 2010 13:53
David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Elliott Roper wrote: > > In article<pPudnUOOtZ-Zg9HWnZ2dnUVZ8kti4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David > > Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > > >> Elliott Roper wrote: > > > >> Are you going to add .flac into the mix? > > > > Nah. I see no reason not to believe it really is lossless. Besides > > .flac is a royal pain in the bum on OS X. The only tools that play it > > directly that I have are of dubious provenance, so all it would prove > > is that the tool might be ok or that I'm bullshitting again. > > > > I just wondered... > > I agree that it's a pita as I've never found anything good that handles > it. Amadeus Pro? Wave Editor will import and export .flac although I've never needed to: <http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/> Stuart -- cut that out to reply |