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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 25393" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: MP3 vs WAVWAV doesn&#039;t have support for tagging, so organizing them could get messy. I use FLAC, which is the Free Lossless Audio Codec, so it sounds the same as WAV but takes up about 1/2 to 3/4 the space. It supports tagging and can be easily transcoded to mp3 for portable devices, since most of them don&#039;t support FLAC.Also know that the bitrate isn&#039;t the final judge of quality. A poor quality 320k rip might sound worse than a high quality 128k rip. It&#039;s all up to the encoder. And, AFAIK, iTunes doesn&#039;t use mp3, it uses AAC, which is a version of mp4.Additionally, for ripping a CD, the &#039;highest quality settings&#039; are probably not correct. I&#039;ve seen ripped music with a sampling rate of 48k, which is obviously impossible since it came from a CD, and it only happens because the ripper picked the highest numbers they could. Then the encoder does sample rate conversion and it ends up sounding really, really bad.For a CD, correct settings are 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo WAV, or the same in FLAC.Why not rip everything to FLAC? Lots of music is even available for download, paid or not, in FLAC. A 1TB hard drive is less than $100 these days, and you&#039;d be pressed to fill it.PS- I can absolutely hear the difference between any mp3 and a good WAV or FLAC file.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 25393, member: 34"] Re: MP3 vs WAV WAV doesn't have support for tagging, so organizing them could get messy. I use FLAC, which is the Free Lossless Audio Codec, so it sounds the same as WAV but takes up about 1/2 to 3/4 the space. It supports tagging and can be easily transcoded to mp3 for portable devices, since most of them don't support FLAC. Also know that the bitrate isn't the final judge of quality. A poor quality 320k rip might sound worse than a high quality 128k rip. It's all up to the encoder. And, AFAIK, iTunes doesn't use mp3, it uses AAC, which is a version of mp4. Additionally, for ripping a CD, the 'highest quality settings' are probably not correct. I've seen ripped music with a sampling rate of 48k, which is obviously impossible since it came from a CD, and it only happens because the ripper picked the highest numbers they could. Then the encoder does sample rate conversion and it ends up sounding really, really bad. For a CD, correct settings are 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo WAV, or the same in FLAC. Why not rip everything to FLAC? Lots of music is even available for download, paid or not, in FLAC. A 1TB hard drive is less than $100 these days, and you'd be pressed to fill it. PS- I can absolutely hear the difference between any mp3 and a good WAV or FLAC file. [/QUOTE]

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