
Robert94
Audioholic Intern
Just interested in your opinions and experiences, or even if you couldn't care less about the format or listening medium - although I'm sure you do care!
+1 on ripping cd's to flac. Then I put them on a memory stick that I plug into the back of my Oppo. Using the remote app for my Ipad enables me to skip around very quickly, which I frequently do.CD is my first choice for critical listening.
I rip all my CDs to FLAC so that I can enjoy them on my phone, etc, for easy access.
+1 on Foobar2000!I enjoy the CD format as well. Since I got the Oppo 105 I have downloaded some music from HD tracks to try that out. Some of the music I purchased on HD tracks, I already had on CD, I wanted to see if I could tell a difference. I can't hear much of a difference between High Res (on a thumb drive) and CD, they both sound good. All the CDs I listen to on a regular basis, I ripped (Lossless) and use foobar to get it to the player. It's really convenient to be able to scroll through your music on the TV screen. But I still like to put a disc in the machine once in a while. There just something about taking a disc out of the case and putting in the tray that I'll never completely get away from. One thing I do regret is that my CDs on my computer are in WAV format that doesn't show album art (I used windows media player to rip)
I wish I had started with flac, only because of the album art. I can't complain about the sound quality of WAV at all. Streaming Wav to the oppo with an ethernet cable sounds as good as a CD to me.+1 on Foobar2000!
I MUCH prefer Exact Audio Copy for ripping CDs. This was what was recommended to me when I asked about it on this forum.
EAC is free, but you do have to jump through some hoops on the configurations etc. It's a bit of a chore, but it's tough to complain for $0.
What I really like about EAC is that it compares the rip to known rips, and let's you know if the rip is an exact copy or not.
I prefer FLAC format myself.
Hmmmm.I wish I had started with flac, only because of the album art. I can't complain about the sound quality of WAV at all. Streaming Wav to the oppo with an ethernet cable sounds as good as a CD to me.
Thanks for the info. I will look into converting from Wav to Flac. It's not really a major deal and the sound is great. The file size of Wav files isn't as big an issue for me because my PC's hard drive holds over 900GB of data. Thanks again for the heads up on EAC though!Hmmmm.
I'm not an expert on this, and I tend to use FLAC over WAV.......but I don't think that the album artwork is tied to the WAV file at all???
I think that the artwork may be part of the "meta-data". I'm pretty sure that I can link artwork to the few WAVs that I have, but like I said I don't use this format much, and I'm not an expert in this niche.
When you use EAC, when you rip a disc, it gives the option to search a database (you tell it what db you want to use) and let's you choose artwork from the db. You can set up EAC to rip as WAV or FLAC, and I believe the artwork works the same for each.
The main reason that I use FLAC is that it compresses the file (lossless compression) where WAV does no compression.
Edit: You should be able to convert WAV to FLAC pretty easily. When I use EAC, it seems that it natively rips as WAV, then I have an extension program that takes WAV, compresses to FLAC, then discards the original WAV.
WAV is an exact bit for bit copy of the CD. It can't sound any different. FLAC is the same thing but compressed. It is uncompressed and played just like a WAV. It can't sound any different either. MP3 is the lossy format I use. Since I use a high bit rate, it doesn't sound any different either.I wish I had started with flac, only because of the album art. I can't complain about the sound quality of WAV at all. Streaming Wav to the oppo with an ethernet cable sounds as good as a CD to me.