Re: Music file formats with Sonos

["Paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree do a blind test.

Personally when I got my Squeezebox I ripped my CDs as MP3 then I learnt
about FLAC and re-ripped. A few times I've noticed tracks playing that are
less dynamic and sound "weak" these are MP3's that I forgot to
re-rip. In the car I notice a difference between CDs and MP3's on my iPod.
I now rip to FLAC and after sorting out the tags (if needed) I then
re-encode to MP3 as well. I use DBPoweramp and it works very well as it
makes use of all cores in the CPU

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Neil Ball" <neilball@...> wrote:
>
> And the easiest way to determine if it is worthwhile (to you) by
ripping a
> couple of albums to flac and then compare both versions via Sonos. If
you
> hear benefits from flac then you can re-rip knowing there is an
improvement.
> Note that you will need to ensure the albums are ripped with different
> names/tags or in different shares and re-index to choose one or the
other as
> Sonos does not normally show all versions of the same album if they
are
> present in different formats and you cannot easily determine which it
has
> used.
>
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kim Wall
> Sent: 18 October 2009 14:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Music file formats with Sonos
>
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>
> On 18/10/09 09:53, Tony wrote:
> > But am wondering if I should re-rip my CD's to flac (though this
will
> > mean keeping 2 music libraries as my ipod and iphone can't play
flac
> > as far as i know, but space isn't a problem)
>
> My take on this is "Rip to flac and rip once". If you need
some other
> format for a portable device or whatever, converting from flac is less
> hassle than digging the original CDs out. No need to rip them again.
>
> Kim.
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