On lossless you can just switch between alac and flac and whatever lossless codec comes to mind how often you want and it will stay the same.Īlso generational loss. Imagine you got your ogg opus files and cant play them cuz apple. Lets say if you plan to switch codecs in the future for compatibility reasons for example. However i still get flac because it offers flexibility. But it's the embedded metadata that counts to the point where you could use random hashes for filenames if you really wanted.įoobar2000 and Music Picard are what i use. Maybe folders if you want to group all the tracks with independent image file(s) of the album artwork. How about best programs for for renaming files and getting album art?įile names are actually irrelevant. if a file has been re-encoded from 1 lossy format to another, or if it's had it's meta data messed with.Įither way you can usually tell by looking at the suspect file in a spectral analysis. The only thing you need to watch out for is false reporting i.e. Knowing all that, you now have infinitely more options about where you get your music. I ended up going with AAC 192Kbps VBR (winamp codec). Never mind me with my failing 33 year old hearing.Īlready tested myself, sine waves outside the 4hz - 17Khz range, i can't hear □ What i've found is that even audiophiles with equipment costing $tens-of-thousands find it extremely hard to hear the difference. How do i know this? I spent the last 8 months or so, trawling the internet because i wanted to have a backup of my music other than just spotify or some other cloud provider and was trying to find the best format. I can guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. If you played all 3 at once in a multisequencer (audacity) and kept switching between muting 2 of them and having the last one actively playing. You have a track, we'll say it's 24bit 48000Hz for the sake of argument, but 16bit 44100Hz is also fine (real maths / science behind that). You have the best audio equipment money can buy which can playback audio with 100% accuracy. If you don't need to do either, and this is simply for listening purposes, there is no point to lossless formats. You need to move between compression formats. authoring for movies, mixing, etc) and need the max fidelity from a digital effects standpoint. You are using the files in a production environment (e.g. If this is an ego epeen trip ("look at me and my big lossless files") then disregard everything i'm about to say, and have fun.īut otherwise, pragmatically speaking the only 2 valid reasons for lossless files are: I would ask first if there's any particular reason you require the audio to be lossless? Look through past posts on this sub to see what people are using. There are many other metadata managers out there, e.g. I have not tried PerfectTunes, a non-free option from the dbPoweramp guy. Instead, I want the precise artwork from the exact CD editions I'm ripping, so I dig around on Discogs to find the right pressings, and just drag & drop the artwork from there into mp3Tag. It's very good, but I always found its interface a bit unintuitive, myself, and prone to getting me "close enough" album art. Some people swear by MusicBrainz Picard to do their tagging. I use a combination of foobar2000 (audio player) and mp3Tag (audio file tagger) for final tagging & renaming each has certain strengths. It's nice when the ripper can fetch all the metadata and artwork, but some (many?) of us prefer to use the ripper just to get rudimentary data and then we go in afterward with something else to do the metadata management. If your discs are unscratched, most will rip cleanly and quickly, and you can use CUETools afterward to check them for errors against the two major databases (CTDB and AccurateRip). There also some lesser-known free options based on libparanoia, but I'm not as familiar with those and am hesitant to recommend them.Įven non-secure rippers aren't that bad. Mostly, though, I'm looking for specific obscure and out-of-print material, which I get via peer-to-peer file sharing services (torrents, Soulseek).įor ripping, any "secure" ripper will do. A few times a year, I buy some physical discs at thrift stores, or I buy digital downloads through Bandcamp or Qobuz.
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