Lossless format miscellaneous.................

[admin_exported]

So tonight is the night..... basically I have been holding off turning my CDs into Lossless while I found a Terastation that I could wirelessly network (and then hook up to a Squeezebox). But I am not ever going to be able to afford that Terastation (or Squeezbox) unless I sell me dang CDs (I love a good Catch 22)......

Over the weekend a external HDD gave up the ghost and befell the spectre of the dreaded 'corrupted file'.... so I had to re-format it. Tax inspectors amongst you will be glad to hear that I saved all the tax files.... however the film buffs amongst you will be sad to hear that I lost all the films that I had (goodbye 'Lethal Weapons 1, 2, 3 and 4'......).

Still like the economy and Napoleon's scorched earth policy after destruction there is re-growth...... so I have a 320gb empty hard drive to fill.......... so the Lossless experiment can begin.

Up until now I have been anti-Apple. The reason for this is more political than technological.... I do not like the way that they impede compatibility in order to profit at the expense of .... well.....me. I wanna complete control of my Itunes downloads.... and I want to be able to play FLAC (which would be my lossless format of choice) on my Ipod......... so to my question.......

I have never used any other music server programme other than Itunes...... and I own an Ipod...... so bottom line..... there is no way around the problem that I have to start the losslees experiment using Apple Lossless is there? Do I have a practible alternative? Will this present compatibility problems with the Squeezebox (looking ahead) and can I convert Apple Lossless to FLAC in the future? (as I move away from the Apple company for personal issues with their ethos).

 

[VoodooDoctor]

Going to have to use Apple Lossless I'm afraid. I ripped my collection to FLAC and then bought an iPod so used a batch convertor (dBPowerAmp) to change them all over. It can easily be done in the opposite direction too.

 

[Alec]

VoodooDoctor:It can easily be done in the opposite direction too.

which also means if you did choose to leave apple behind you could do so.

 

[Binman]

As others have said, you will need to use Apple Lossless if you want to use your ipod and a squeezebox. I had issues with using Apple Lossless with my Squeezebox - low powered (400MHZ / 512MB RAM) PC trying to transcode Apple Lossless into somthing the Squeezebox could play on the fly caused stuttering and major dropouts, so I ended up coverting to FLAC which doesnt need transcoding by the PC. Also, Apple files could not be fast forwaded / rewinded on the Squeezebox either.