RE: Was [OT] Audio Ripping Now : Apple Lossless

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just started doing this and the HP spoken word CDs come in at 140 to
160Mb per CD

A pop classical CD is 433Mb (Vanessa Mae, Subject To Change)

I don't have the originals immediately to hand so I can't tell you what the
compression ratio is like

BTW  I also discovered that by renaming any .m4a files to .m4b  the Audio
book functions on the iPod are enabled.  This allows the speed of playback
to be altered and the current position in the track to be saved when you
stop listening :-D



-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 February 2005 16:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Was [OT] Audio Ripping Now : Apple Lossless



Hi Guys

So what sort of file sizes do you end up with for Apple Lossless?
How much space does each CD take?

Ben

On 15 Feb 2005, at 16:16, Ward, David wrote:

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> Or iTunes with Lossless AAC....
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> From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 February 2005 16:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Audio Ripping
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> Have you looked at any lossless compression formats?
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> With WAV each CD is going to take up 650Mb.
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> There are a number of lossless formats
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> FLAC
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> http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/
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>> Having just lost nearly 90Gb of music files in a hard disk failure
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>> I've got to start encoding all of my CDs to hard disk again.
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>> I was thinking of doing them all to WAV this time for maximum
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>> Anyone got any recommendations for a good CD to WAV ripper ? I've
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>> TIA
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